Category Archives: Canada
'This election's important to me': Grumbling about protesters at Dem convention
PHILADELPHIA - Claire Merced couldn’t believe people walked out on the Democratic convention. Really. The California convention-goer assumed the media had made up or exaggerated the stories abou...
Jul 28, 2016
Manitoba premier suggests Churchill port owners wanted government bailout
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister hinted strongly Thursday that the Port of Churchill - the largest employer in the subarctic town of 800 - has been shut down because its owners, Omnitrax, w...
Jul 28, 2016
Sudden moth swarm bedevils New Brunswick towns: 'People ran out in a panic'
DALHOUSIE, N.B. - A sudden infestation of spruce budworm moths swarmed northern New Brunswick last weekend, leaving people in Campbellton and Dalhousie with stories to tell - and a mess to clean up. S...
Jul 28, 2016
Federal prison death details so sparse that family grief deepens: study
HALIFAX - Families with relatives who die in federal jails aren’t consistently getting the full story of what happened, sometimes waiting for a year or more for heavily censored investigation re...
Jul 28, 2016
Suncor proposes leaving oilsands in ground to cut GHG emission intensity
CALGARY - A proposal by oilsands giant Suncor Energy to leave some of its more difficult-to-produce reserves in the ground, to reduce emissions and costs, is being endorsed by environmentalists - but ...
Jul 28, 2016
Husky Energy changes day it discovered oil pipeline spill in Saskatchewan
Husky Energy has changed details about when it discovered its oil pipeline spill into the North Saskatchewan River. Earlier this week, the company filed a report that said it found the leak of up to 2...
Jul 28, 2016
RCMP say two teens found dead in northern Alberta earlier this week were shot
EDMONTON - Two teens found dead earlier this week in northern Alberta were shot to death and the case is now considered a double homicide, Mounties said Thursday. RCMP Insp. Gibson Glavin said an auto...
Jul 28, 2016
Cost, transparency concerns raised over Nova Scotia government opinion polls
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government spent more than $250,000 in single year on public opinion polls and surveys, raising concerns about transparency and cost. According to documents obtained by The C...
Jul 28, 2016
Payday problems for more than 80,000 civil servants to be resolved by October
OTTAWA - The federal government could have done a better job implementing the new payroll system that’s causing serious payday headaches for tens of thousands of civil servants, a senior bureauc...
Jul 28, 2016
Alleged Quebec election night shooter 'likely' psychotic that night: psychiatrist
MONTREAL - Alleged Quebec election night shooter Richard Henry Bain was likely psychotic and wasn’t able to stop himself the night a man was shot and killed outside a Parti Quebecois gathering i...
Jul 28, 2016
