Category Archives: Canada
Goodale keeps door open to CSIS use of metadata gathered from innocent people
OTTAWA - The federal public safety minister is keeping the door open to the idea of Canada’s spy agency crunching potentially sensitive data about innocent people. Ralph Goodale told MPs at a Ho...
Dec 08, 2016
Quebec First Nation lays claim to downtown Ottawa, including Parliament Hill
OTTAWA - A Quebec First Nation has filed a lawsuit seeking aboriginal title over much of downtown Ottawa, including Parliament Hill. “The Algonquin Anishinabe Nation has never surrendered its ti...
Dec 08, 2016
B.C. opens sites similar to supervised-injection sites without federal exemption
VANCOUVER - British Columbia is opening new locations where people can inject illicit drugs while monitored by trained staff - but the province says it isn’t skirting the law on supervised-injec...
Dec 08, 2016
Smallpox may be more modern disease, not ancient, as long thought: researchers
TORONTO - It’s long been thought that smallpox is an ancient infectious disease that began decimating human populations thousands of years ago, but new genetic research is casting doubt on that ...
Dec 08, 2016
StatCan bill won't protect census from political meddling: former chief
OTTAWA - The federal government’s bid to protect Statistics Canada from political interference has a significant oversight that exposes the census to the possibility of government meddling, says...
Dec 08, 2016
Noose shown to Muslim women: Edmonton police release man without charges
EDMONTON - Police in Edmonton have released a man who was taken into custody after two women wearing hijabs were taunted in what investigators have said could be a hate crime. No charges have been lai...
Dec 08, 2016
Stranger's random act of kindness reaps plaudits from B.C. transit police
VANCOUVER - A stranger who gave his coat to a young woman dressed only in a T-shirt and pyjama pants in sub-zero temperatures is being lauded for his anonymous act of kindness by transit police in Van...
Dec 08, 2016
Doctor fights finding she sexually abused woman, and loss of medical licence
TORONTO - Stripping a doctor of her medical licence for sexually abusing a female patient was unfair, an Ontario court heard Thursday. In making its decision, the disciplinary committee ignored eviden...
Dec 08, 2016
Saskatchewan researcher helps ID feathered dinosaur vertebrae encased in amber
REGINA - Researchers say they have found the 99-million-year-old tail of a theropod dinosaur preserved in amber and a Canadian is key to the discovery. The specimen was purchased from a Myanmar amber ...
Dec 08, 2016
New Brunswick to adopt gender-neutral names for two provincial offices
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s government has introduced legislation to give two provincial offices gender-neutral names. The Office of the Rentalsman will be renamed the Residential Tenancies Tr...
Dec 08, 2016