Category Archives: Canada
Trump's tough talk, Cuban military exercises cast shadow on Trudeau visit
OTTAWA - The chill of the Cold War will run through Cuba when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives in the country this week. The warming of relations between Cuba and the United States could end next...
Nov 13, 2016

Leonard Cohen's son Adam thanks public for support following singer's death
MONTREAL - The outpouring of love and affection that has followed Leonard Cohen’s death did not go unnoticed by the late singer’s son, who thanked the public in an online message. “T...
Nov 13, 2016
Isolation a barrier to exposing sexual abuse, incest on reserve: Bellegarde
OTTAWA - At night, he would arrive in Corey’s room by crawling through the window next to the bunk bed where she slept. She knew from the smell when he was there. By day, she endured different h...
Nov 13, 2016

Conservative leadership rivals debate best path to reviving party fortunes
GREELY, Ont. - A two-hour debate Sunday among nine rivals for the federal Conservative leadership often morphed into an autopsy of the party’s ill-fated 2015 election campaign. Candidates clashe...
Nov 13, 2016

Unlimited vacation: The ultimate work perk, but experts warn of pitfalls
PARADISE, N.L. - Terry Hussey has never forgotten how Sunday nights used to feel: anxious dread, before another week at a job he hated. So when he became CEO of Vigilant Management in Paradise, N.L., ...
Nov 13, 2016

'Challenging language:' Edmonton academic studies versions of 1st Inuit novel
EDMONTON - The story reaches out of an Arctic past stretching back to long before Europeans came, a world when a hunter’s fate was determined by snow and ice, claws and courage. An academic is d...
Nov 13, 2016

Red Cross funds study into how Fort McMurray wildfire affected indigenous people
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Melanie Dene still remembers the harrowing ordeal of driving through fiery hell during the evacuation of Fort McMurray six months ago with her two young daughters. The chaos of ...
Nov 13, 2016

Dads on the Hill: Male MPs with kids work hard to mix fatherhood with politics
OTTAWA - Liberal MP Peter Schiefke checks his schedule carefully each week, as one would expect from anyone with a busy job, asking himself one question in particular. Will the timing of a vote in the...
Nov 13, 2016

Man shot by Vancouver police had 'criminal intentions,' took hostage: chief
VANCOUVER - A “very large man” shot and killed by officers during a robbery and hostage-taking may have had further criminal intentions after trying to steal firearms from a Canadian Tire ...
Nov 13, 2016
Environmental impact of sunken tug to be shared after investigation completed
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - The federal government says it can’t comment on the environmental impact of a diesel spill off British Columbia’s central coast even as the removal of the sunken tug re...
Nov 12, 2016