Category Archives: Canada
'Shame and Prejudice' explores historical treatment of Canada's indigenous peoples
TORONTO - With celebrations underway for Canada’s sesquicentennial, Kent Monkman is focusing a critical lens on the country’s treatment of indigenous peoples over the last 150 years. Monkm...
Jan 23, 2017
Pipeline breach southeast of Regina leaks 200,000 litres of crude oil
STOUGHTON, Sask. - About 200,000 litres of crude oil has been spilled onto agricultural land in southeastern Saskatchewan after a pipeline leak. The spill was detected Friday at a site 10 kilometres n...
Jan 23, 2017
Victims of former priest's abuse need Anglican Church to apologize: minister
OTTAWA - A long-awaited public apology from the Anglican Church for the rampant sexual abuse perpetrated by former priest Ralph Rowe in the 1970s and 1980s will be vital in helping victims heal, Canad...
Jan 23, 2017
Court hears Winnipeg girl was alive when she was left to freeze to death
WINNIPEG - A pathologist says a Winnipeg teenager was alive when she was tied up and left in a shed where she froze to death. He also told court that his autopsy uncovered no signs that 13-year-old Ca...
Jan 23, 2017
Visa mix-up: Syrian refugee who founded N.S. chocolatier stopped at U.S. border
ANTIGONISH, N.S. - A Syrian refugee whose family has established a thriving chocolate-making business in northern Nova Scotia says U.S. border officials prevented him from entering the United States o...
Jan 23, 2017
Study suggests third of cigarettes sold in Ontario are contraband
TORONTO - A new study suggests nearly a third of cigarettes sold in Ontario are purchased illegally. The National Coalition Against Contraband Tobacco commissioned research that tracked the cigarette-...
Jan 23, 2017
Police say they are investigating an alleged assault at Edmonton women's rally
Edmonton police say they are investigating an alleged assault said to have occurred Saturday at a rally held at the Alberta legislature in support of the Women’s March on Washington. The complai...
Jan 23, 2017
Montreal-area pit bull to be euthanized after attack on young boy
MONTREAL - A recent dog attack on a seven-year-old Montreal boy shows the importance of the city’s new anti-pit bull bylaw, a borough mayor said Monday. The new law “is essential,” V...
Jan 23, 2017
Public reprimand for Ontario doctor who 'brought shame to the profession'
TORONTO - Ontario’s medical watchdog has issued a scathing reprimand against a psychiatrist who sexually abused multiple patients over more than a decade, saying the man brought shame to the pro...
Jan 23, 2017
Vancouver's housing market third most expensive in the world: survey
VANCOUVER - An annual international survey rates Vancouver as the third least affordable housing market on the planet and it also has a warning about Toronto housing. The 2017 Demographia Internationa...
Jan 23, 2017