Category Archives: Canada
Owners of Toronto's illegal pot shops not reporting violent robberies: Police
TORONTO - Police say marijuana dispensaries operating illegally in Toronto have been the target of violent, armed robberies but their business owners and employees often don’t report them to aut...
Jan 23, 2017
Striking Chronicle Herald workers mark one-year anniversary of labour dispute
HALIFAX - The union representing striking workers at the Halifax Chronicle Herald are holding rallies throughout Nova Scotia Monday to mark the one-year anniversary of the labour dispute. The Halifax ...
Jan 23, 2017
Canada needn't be 'enormously worried' about U.S. trade reset: Trump official
CALGARY - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau need not be “enormously worried” about a looming overhaul in U.S. trade policy under Donald Trump, an adviser to the new administration said Monday,...
Jan 23, 2017
New Canadians shoot, score full citizenship prior to junior hockey game
SASKATOON - Several people in Saskatchewan have officially dropped the puck on their new lives as Canadian citizens. The group of 20 took the oath of citizenship Sunday at centre ice just before a gam...
Jan 23, 2017
N.S. appoints Mi'kmaq, black women to bench: 'This is a huge step forward'
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia has appointed the first Mi’kmaq woman and the third black woman to the provincial and family courts, in what the province’s premier calls a “huge step forward&#...
Jan 23, 2017
Long-standing Nova Scotia festival opens competition to all gender identities
KENTVILLE, N.S. - A Nova Scotia festival that has crowned a queen for more than 80 years is opening up the competition to people of all genders and gender identities. The Annapolis Valley Apple Blosso...
Jan 23, 2017
Cape Breton park raising money for cage for bear cub found wandering the highway
WHYCOCOMAGH, N.S. - An orphaned black bear cub found wandering alone and pneumonia-stricken on a Cape Breton highway has been nursed back to health. The one-year-old cub, dubbed “Little Bear,...
Jan 23, 2017
Three stories in the news today, Jan. 23
Three stories in the news for Monday, Jan. 23 --- TRUDEAU CABINET TO MEET WITH KEY MEMBER OF TEAM TRUMP: The new man in the White House will be top of mind as Justin Trudeau and his cabinet huddle in ...
Jan 23, 2017
'She gambled away Ryan's life': Judge rules Calgary mother criminally negligent in son's death
CALGARY - An Alberta judge says a Calgary woman who treated her son with holistic remedies before he died of a strep infection “gambled away” his life and is guilty of criminal negligence ...
Jan 23, 2017
'No reason to believe' Don Dunphy violent, police officer tells inquiry
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The beige, battered recliner in which Don Dunphy’s body was found was front-and-centre at the inquiry into his death Monday, as the lawyer for his daughter grilled the o...
Jan 23, 2017