Category Archives: Canada
Keep Pokemon Go out of Saskatchewan jails: Corrections Ministry
REGINA - The Saskatchewan Corrections Ministry is reminding Pokemon Go players to stay out of jail. Spokesman Drew Wilby says young offender and other correctional facilities are off-limits for securi...
Jul 20, 2016
Quebec-based group given go-ahead to begin testing Zika vaccine on humans
MONTREAL - A Quebec City-based research team has received the green light to begin testing a Zika vaccine on humans in collaboration with U.S.-based partners. The researchers based at Universite Laval...
Jul 20, 2016
A by-the-numbers look at the new Canada child benefit that rolled out Wednesday
OTTAWA - The first federal Canada child benefit payments arrived in Wednesday. Here is a look at the program, by the numbers. $23 billion: Cost of the Canada child benefit in the Liberals’ 2016 ...
Jul 20, 2016
No word from Cuban softball players who didn't show at B.C. tournament
SURREY, Canada - A pair of Cuban softball players who failed to show up for the Women’s World Softball Championship in Surrey, B.C., have not had any contact with their team for three days. Tour...
Jul 20, 2016
Halifax police could drop use of 'Middle Eastern' when describing suspects
Halifax police are perpetuating damaging stereotypes by using “Middle Eastern” to describe three unknown cab drivers suspected in a recent string of alleged sexual assaults, critics say. &...
Jul 20, 2016
Post-ISIL challenges come into focus as Canada attends Washington meeting
OTTAWA - With a military victory over the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in sight, Canada and its allies are turning their attention to what comes next - keeping Iraq together and stopping the s...
Jul 20, 2016
Delays and crowding on commuter GO Train spark commuter complaints
TORONTO - Delays and overcrowding on commuter trains serving southern Ontario is causing chaos for users of the busy regional transit system this summer. Metrolinx, the Ontario government agency that ...
Jul 20, 2016
Three facts about the government's new Canada child benefit
OTTAWA - The federal government’s new child benefit will arrive in bank accounts and mailboxes starting Wednesday, and replaces the universal child care benefit, the Canada child tax benefit and...
Jul 20, 2016
Quebec's Gaspe Mi'kmaq seek to halt New Brunswick oil terminal in federal court
POINTE-A-LA-CROIX, Que. - Three Mi’kmaq communities in Quebec’s Gaspe region are asking the federal court to halt an oil export terminal in northern New Brunswick. The communities want the...
Jul 20, 2016
'Bedpan vigil' search violated man's rights; drug conviction quashed
TORONTO - A man who hid drugs in his rectum had his trafficking conviction overturned Wednesday because police detained him for 43 hours waiting for him to defecate before taking him to a justice of t...
Jul 20, 2016
