Category Archives: Canada
Concerns raised about possible ongoing problems at CNRL well in Alberta
Environmentalists and First Nations are raising concerns about a heavy oilfield in northeastern Alberta that may still be seeping water and bitumen years after the flow was first discovered. The field...
Nov 20, 2016
Future of broadband investment up in the air after CRTC rate decision
TORONTO - Experts are casting doubt that some major Canadian firms will follow through on threats to stop expanding their broadband networks after the CRTC lowered proposed rates to be charged to smal...
Nov 20, 2016
Spokesman for switched-at-birth families says they'll meet with health minister
WINNIPEG - Health Minister Jane Philpott will meet Monday with families involved in two cases where babies were switched at birth at a northern Manitoba hospital in the 1970s, a spokesman for the fami...
Nov 20, 2016

Trudeau sounds pro-trade note at close of APEC summit amid cloudy future
LIMA, Peru - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and leaders from Asian and Pacific nations - so eager to cement free trade in the region - are leaving an annual summit facing an uncertain future about the ...
Nov 20, 2016

B.C. couple heartsick as ministry seizes son due to mysterious broken bones
VANCOUVER - Every time she says goodbye to her five-year-old son, his mother struggles to explain why. “I just say, ‘The ministry is not allowing me to stay with you, honey. They’re ...
Nov 20, 2016
No winning ticket for Saturday night's $9 million Lotto 649 jackpot
TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $9 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the $1 million guaranteed prize was claimed by a ticket holder in Ontario. The jackpo...
Nov 20, 2016
Pauline Marois satisfied with Quebec 2012 election-night shooter's sentence
MONTREAL - Former Quebec premier Pauline Marois says she’s satisfied Richard Henry Bain will spend at least 20 years behind bars before being eligible for parole. Bain was convicted by a jury in...
Nov 19, 2016
Police arrest 'young man' in connection to racist graffiti in Ottawa
Ottawa police say they’ve made an arrest following a recent spate of racist graffiti. At a solidarity event at a south-end synagogue, Chief Charles Bordeleau said a young man was arrested Saturd...
Nov 19, 2016

Exiled cleric could pose risk to Canadian-Turkish relations: diplomat
HALIFAX - A senior Turkish politician attending the Halifax International Security Forum says Donald Trump’s election could spell trouble for relations with Canada if a U.S.-based Muslim disside...
Nov 19, 2016
Dead humpback whale found tangled in defunct fish farm in B.C.
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - A dead humpback whale has been found stuck in equipment at an empty fish farm on B.C.’s central coast. Marine Harvest Canada says in a news release that the whale was found e...
Nov 19, 2016