Category Archives: Canada
Advocates urge Liberal government to reduce number of women in prison
OTTAWA - Sometimes when she goes to the grocery store, all Alia Pierini can do is sit in the parking lot, unable to bear the idea of going inside. She tries a different store, but Pierini, 31, often e...
Nov 03, 2016
Falling costs allow Canadian Natural to restart stalled oilsands project
CALGARY - Canadian Natural Resources (TSX:CNQ) is hitting the restart button on a thermal oilsands project it suspended nearly two years ago, counting on lower costs to shave $100 million from the ori...
Nov 03, 2016
Alberta government fleshes out plan to meet its renewable power targets
CALGARY - The Alberta government plans to use revenues from its carbon levy on large emitters to help spur investment in green power. Environment Minister Shannon Phillips outlined details of the Rene...
Nov 03, 2016
None of alleged trial errors raised by Rafferty on appeal occurred: Appeal Court
TORONTO - Ontario’s top court rejected all the arguments raised on appeal by the man who killed eight-year-old Victoria Stafford, ruling that the performance of the trial judge who handled the o...
Nov 03, 2016
Wrong address murder: Judge finds man guilty in shooting of Saskatoon mother
SASKATOON - A judge has found a man guilty of first-degree murder for setting up a gang shooting that targeted the wrong house and killed a woman inside as she and her husband were getting their child...
Nov 03, 2016
Marc Garneau says Ottawa will require video and voice recorders on trains
MONTREAL - Ottawa will implement rules to require railways to install video and voice-recording devices in locomotives, Transport Minister Marc Garneau said Thursday. He said they would be used to inv...
Nov 03, 2016
Discovery of liquid fentanyl in Hamilton a 'game changer' for front-line cops
A police force in Ontario is revamping the way officers handle street drugs after learning that a substance seized during a drug raid was liquid fentanyl, a highly powerful opioid that can be easily a...
Nov 03, 2016
Quebec to hold inquiry into surveillance of journalists by police forces
MONTREAL - As Quebec announced plans Thursday to hold an inquiry into freedom of the press and police surveillance of journalists, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said spying on reporters is not happeni...
Nov 03, 2016
Snake 'coiled' around brothers, repeatedly bit them, N.B. negligence trial told
CAMPBELLTON, N.B. - An escaped python coiled itself around two young boys, strangling them and biting them repeatedly, a pathologist told the trial of the snake’s owner Thursday. “Most of ...
Nov 03, 2016
Federal government aims to lower airfares by bolstering competition
MONTREAL - The federal government plans to raise the cap on foreign ownership of Canadian airlines in a bid to drive down fares and offer travellers more choice. Transport Minister Marc Garneau promis...
Nov 03, 2016