Category Archives: Canada
Investigation into cocaine smuggling from Mexico to Canada results in arrests
WINNIPEG - Mounties say they have arrested people from Manitoba and Ontario after a two-year investigation into a criminal group moving large amounts of cocaine into Canada from Mexico. RCMP say durin...
Jul 29, 2016
Canadian rugby player dies in Adirondack tournament
SARANAC LAKE, N.Y. - A Canadian rugby player has collapsed and died of an apparent heart attack at a tournament in the Adirondack Mountains. Officials tell the Adirondack Daily Enterprise (http://bit....
Jul 29, 2016
Missing, murdered indigenous women announcement expected Wednesday
OTTAWA - Indigenous leaders say the federal government is expected to announce the terms of an inquiry into murdered and missing aboriginal women on Wednesday. The event will mark the end of the gover...
Jul 29, 2016
B.C. property tax could spark trade war with China, U.S., says free-trade expert
VICTORIA - A Canadian trade expert says British Columbia’s new 15 per cent property transfer tax on foreign homebuyers could spark trade wars with China and the United States. Trade lawyer Barry...
Jul 29, 2016
N.S. judge says aboriginal man must be jailed for gun crime, despite background
HALIFAX - An aboriginal man who sought a conditional sentence for several gun convictions has been instead jailed by a judge who said the man’s crimes outweighed considerations about his backgro...
Jul 29, 2016
An irresistible aroma responsible for mountain pine beetle attacks: research
CALGARY - Research suggests pine trees with strong natural defences are their own worst enemy when it comes to the destructive mountain pine beetle. Although the sap produced by the lodgepole pine is ...
Jul 29, 2016
Facts about entrapment in relation to a B.C. terrorism trial
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled the RCMP entrapped a couple convicted of plotting to blow up the provincial legislature on Canada Day three years ago. John Nuttall and Ama...
Jul 29, 2016
Timeline of B.C. terrorist bomb plot
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia Supreme Court judge ruled Friday that the RCMP entrapped a couple into plotting to set off homemade bombs at the provincial legislature on Canada Day three years ago. He...
Jul 29, 2016
New water supply to Saskatchewan city to deal with Husky oil spill by weekend
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - Saskatchewan’s third-largest city was expecting to have alternate sources of water on the weekend to help deal with an oil spill that has tainted the river it usually draw...
Jul 29, 2016
What Canadians need to know after Zika virus is transmitted by Florida mosquitoes
As Florida has its first reported case of Zika virus transmitted by mosquitoes on the U.S. mainland, here’s what Canadians need to know: What is Zika virus? It’s a mosquito-borne illness t...
Jul 29, 2016
