Category Archives: Canada
Fireworks, performances across the country to mark start of Canada's 150th year
OTTAWA - A Canada Day tradition was repurposed Saturday night to herald the start of Canada’s 150th year. A massive fireworks display over Parliament Hill - usually reserved for July 1 - took pl...
Dec 31, 2016
No winning ticket for Friday night's $60 million Lotto Max jackpot
TORONTO - The wait continues for someone to claim the big Lotto Max prize. No winning tickets were sold for Friday night’s $60 million jackpot. There were also 30 Maxmillions prizes of $1 millio...
Dec 31, 2016
Entangled deer gets helping hand from B.C. Mountie
COLWOOD, B.C. - A British Columbia Mountie who usually handles dogs, found himself wrangling a deer this week. RCMP in the West Shore detachment on southern Vancouver Island received a call from a Col...
Dec 30, 2016
Newfoundland town hit by hurricane force winds that destroy house, damage others
LARK HARBOUR, N.L. - A town on Newfoundland’s west coast has suffered considerable damage after being hit by hurricane force winds Friday. RCMP say one house in Lark Harbour has been destroyed a...
Dec 30, 2016
The Friday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Friday, Dec. 30 B.C. OPENS MORE OVERDOSE PREVENTION SITES: More overdose prevention sites are opening in British Columbia as health officials try to come to grips wit...
Dec 30, 2016
Former Catholic teacher sues over alleged sexual assaults by priest
VANCOUVER - A former elementary school teacher is suing a diocese of the Roman Catholic church, alleging she was sexually assaulted by a priest while working at a church-run school four decades ago in...
Dec 30, 2016
Drug thought to be fentanyl was more deadly carfentanil, Hamilton police say
HAMILTON - Police in Hamilton say a bottle seized last month, that was suspected to contain a liquid form of the deadly opioid fentanyl, actually contained the more powerful drug carfentanil. Officers...
Dec 30, 2016
Throat singer, children's storyteller, among new Order of Canada recipients
OTTAWA - As Canada enters a year marked by national birthday celebrations and the beginnings of an inquiry into the country’s past, sordid treatment of its indigenous peoples, Nunavut-based thro...
Dec 30, 2016
Honda Canada says it will take until spring to get parts for Odyssey recall
MARKHAM, Ont. - Honda Canada says it will take until next spring to get the parts required to fix thousands of Odyssey minivans that are being recalled because second-row seats may not lock into posit...
Dec 30, 2016
N.S. woman wins damages from 'trusted' man who sexually assaulted her
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia woman has won $160,000 in damages from a once-trusted man more than twice her age who sexually assaulted her. “There is no rational explanation for his conduct other than...
Dec 30, 2016