Category Archives: Canada
Workers stranded on the side of a Vancouver high rise rescued safely
VANCOUVER - Three workers are safe after they were stranded more than 100 metres above the streets of downtown Vancouver early Wednesday morning. Assistant chief Martin Paulson of Vancouver Fire and R...
Nov 30, 2016
Judicial committee says 'knees together' judge Robin Camp should lose his job
CALGARY - A Canadian Judicial Council committee says a judge’s apology for asking a sexual assault complainant why she couldn’t keep her knees together doesn’t offset the damage done...
Nov 30, 2016
B.C. Liberal MPs bracing for constituents after Kinder Morgan pipeline approval
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau’s promise to let backbenchers to be the voice of their constituents in Ottawa is being tested as B.C. Liberal MPs grapple with the political fallout from the decision to ...
Nov 30, 2016
Terrorist sympathizer's shooting death in Ontario justified: police force
A police investigation has found RCMP were justified in fatally shooting a terrorist sympathizer during a confrontation in southwestern Ontario earlier this year. Aaron Driver died in an encounter wit...
Nov 30, 2016
Fentanyl deaths on the rise in Ontario as the drug creeps eastward
TORONTO - Fentanyl-related deaths are still rising in Ontario, though the province's chief coroner said numbers there aren’t as bleak as those in western Canada, where the crisis originated. Fen...
Nov 30, 2016
Report finds pilot overlooked steel cables before fatal Labrador crash
HALIFAX - The pilot of a helicopter that smashed to the ground and fatally pinned one of its passengers underneath failed to notice steel cables as he lifted off from a Labrador helipad, says a new re...
Nov 30, 2016
Arrest made in alleged sexual assault outside stadium of Grey Cup game
TORONTO - A 45-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a woman outside the stadium where Sunday’s Grey Cup game was played in Toronto. Toronto police said...
Nov 30, 2016
Doctor filmed staffers in Nova Scotia clinic's washroom, police allege
NEW GLASGOW, N.S. - A doctor who fled war-torn Iraq a decade ago has been charged with voyeurism after staff at a Nova Scotia medical clinic were surreptitiously filmed while using the washroom. Dr. R...
Nov 30, 2016
Nova Scotia lacks planning for schools, risk plans for infrastructure:auditor
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia approved a new $21 million, Halifax-area school despite evidence it wasn’t needed, the auditor general said Wednesday in a report that slammed the province for poor plannin...
Nov 30, 2016
Tragically Hip's Gord Downie performing at We Day youth event in Halifax
HALIFAX - Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie will be performing at a We Day youth empowerment event in Halifax today. His appearance at the event was announced early Wednesday morning, a day after Do...
Nov 30, 2016