Category Archives: Canada
Freedom Road on the way? Ottawa to kick in more cash for road to cut-off reserve
WINNIPEG - The chief of an isolated reserve struggled to describe his emotions Monday after the federal government said it would spend up to an additional $10 million to make sure an all-weather road ...
Dec 12, 2016
Body shamed, threatened and bullied: Finance minister exposes online abuse
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador’s finance minister says she has faced body shaming, death threats and suggestions that she kill herself, becoming the latest woman in Canadian ...
Dec 12, 2016
Snowfall blankets much of Maritimes, cancelling classes and delaying travel
HALIFAX - A winter storm system is expected to blanket much of Atlantic Canada with more than 15 centimetres of snow today, leading to school closures and some travel delays at the region’s airp...
Dec 12, 2016
N.B. firefighters rescue moose from icy river: 'She was kind of slippery'
SHEDIAC, N.B. - A 225-kilogram female moose was trapped in an icy river for hours on the weekend before axe-wielding New Brunswick firefighters were able to rescue it. The Shediac fire department got ...
Dec 12, 2016
Settlement reached in rights case between university, victim of sexual assault
TORONTO - A human rights case between an Ontario university and a sexually assaulted student has been settled, with the Toronto-area institution promising Monday to provide specialized counselling to ...
Dec 12, 2016
Some recent prison beatings in Canada
Here are some examples of recent beatings in Canadian jails: Sept. 9, 2016 - Alvin Clifford Chiniquay, 40, beaten at Calgary Remand Centre, dies later in hospital. Thirty-two-year old inmate charged w...
Dec 12, 2016
Canadian actors Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds get Golden Globe nominations
TORONTO - It was a tale of two Ryans during Monday’s Golden Globe nominations announcement, with Canadians Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds both making the cut in the same category. Gosling of Lon...
Dec 12, 2016
Sudden spike in prison violence 'a problem right across the country'
HALIFAX - It’s 26 seconds of brutality - and lays bare the emerging reality of a growing number of beatings in Canada’s jails. Inmate Dwayne Wright, watching television with his feet up, i...
Dec 12, 2016
Parliamentary budget office digging into Super Hornet fighter jet costs
OTTAWA - Six years after ripping into the Conservative government’s cost estimates for F-35 stealth fighters, Parliament’s budgetary watchdog says it is digging into the “interimR...
Dec 12, 2016
Feds ease rules on supervised drug injection sites, mail inspections at border
OTTAWA - The federal government is adopting a public-health approach to its drug control strategy, Health Minister Jane Philpott said Monday as she unveiled proposed new measures that would open the d...
Dec 12, 2016