Category Archives: Canada
Bear necessities: Orphaned polar bear cub gets new home at Winnipeg zoo
WINNIPEG - A polar bear cub seen wandering around the northern Manitoba town of Churchill without its mother has a new home. The polar bear conservation centre at the Assiniboine Park Zoo in Winnipeg ...
Nov 23, 2016
Naming of otter pups brightens Vancouver Aquarium as vets fight to save beluga
VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Aquarium says despite recent challenges, as staff cope with the death of one beluga whale and the critical illness of another, some new residents of the aquarium are helping ...
Nov 23, 2016
The Halifax mall plot: New details released about planned Valentine's Day attack
HALIFAX - They called it “Der Untergang” - The Downfall. The plan, conceived by a young Canadian man and, allegedly, an American girlfriend, was to kill as many people as possible in an at...
Nov 23, 2016
Nova Scotia premier to apologize to Mi'kmaq for 'conquered' people law brief
HALIFAX - A group of Mi’kmaq chiefs will get an apology from Nova Scotia’s premier Thursday for a government legal brief that implied members of a First Nation band are a conquered people....
Nov 23, 2016
CBC should focus on public affairs, not cooking, sports, game shows: Bernier
OTTAWA - Conservative leadership hopeful Maxime Bernier wants the CBC to refocus its mandate with fewer cooking shows, sporting events and Canadian knockoffs of popular U.S. programs. The Quebec MP sa...
Nov 23, 2016
Nova Scotia must prepare for illicit fentanyl onslaught: public health officer
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia must prepare for a potential wave of deaths due to illicit fentanyl, and must as a result be careful in addressing painkiller over-prescription, says the province’s chief p...
Nov 23, 2016
Manitoba Liberals want to have weight discrimination in human rights code
WINNIPEG - Advocates say Manitoba should expand human rights protection to overweight people because they are being passed over for everything from job promotions to surgery. About two dozen people ra...
Nov 23, 2016
Author Steven Galloway apologizes in first statement since UBC firing
VANCOUVER - Author Steven Galloway has issued his first statement since he was suspended a year ago by the University of British Columbia over what it has only described as “serious allegations....
Nov 23, 2016
Accused of shooting First Nations man: Gerald Stanley faces firearms charges
NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. - A suspect in the fatal shooting of a First Nations Saskatchewan man is facing more charges. RCMP say Gerald Stanley has been charged with two counts of unsafe storage of a fi...
Nov 23, 2016
Parents file $12.5M lawsuit alleging police ignored, hid evidence in son's death
TORONTO - An Ottawa couple who has been fighting for 15 years to have their son’s death reinvestigated has filed a $12.5 million lawsuit against Toronto police, alleging detectives ignored, conc...
Nov 23, 2016