Category Archives: Canada

Canada-European trade envoy Pierre Pettigrew optimistic CETA will be approved
MONTREAL - Canada’s European trade envoy says he’s hopeful a landmark trade agreement with the European Union will be approved later this week, despite snags that have stalled a critical v...
Oct 18, 2016

Woman known as 'Internet Black Widow' agrees to sign new peace bond
HALIFAX - An elderly woman who became known as the Internet Black Widow after she was convicted of killing and poisoning intimate partners she met online has agreed to drop most of her objections to a...
Oct 18, 2016
3 Ontario men killed in Pennsylvania plane crash, state police say
AUSTIN, Pa. - Pennsylvania state police say three men from Ontario died in the crash of a small plane that lost contact with flight controllers as it was flying from Virginia to Canada. The Federal Av...
Oct 18, 2016

Transport Canada warns some Ram pickups at risk of fire from alternator short
OTTAWA - Transport Canada has issued a recall notice for about 10,000 Ram pickup trucks and other Fiat Chrysler vehicles that are at increased risk of stalling or fire in the engine compartment due to...
Oct 18, 2016
Event cancelled after students reportedly encouraged to perform lewd acts
OTTAWA - An event that reportedly saw students at the University of Ottawa encouraged to perform lewd acts in exchange for points has been cancelled indefinitely as organizers apologized to anyone who...
Oct 18, 2016

Some diesel fuel safely pumped from sunken tug on B.C. central coast
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - Salvage crews have removed more than 88,000 litres of diesel from a sunken tug on British Columbia’s central coast in the latest effort to avert an environmental disaster nea...
Oct 18, 2016
Advocates for native or minority Supreme Court judge disappointed by PM's choice
HALIFAX - The Liberal government may have made history by nominating a Newfoundlander to Canada’s top court - but disappointed advocates say a more critical opportunity has been missed to add ra...
Oct 18, 2016
Six stories in the news today, Oct. 18
Six stories in the news for Tuesday, Oct. 18 --- OTTAWA PREPARES TO DISCUSS HEALTH SPENDING Health Minister Jane Philpott faces a tough discussion with her provincial and territorial counterparts toda...
Oct 18, 2016

Belgium still holding up EU approval of Canada trade deal
LUXEMBOURG - European Union nations failed to endorse a landmark trade deal with Canada as scheduled on Tuesday, but remain optimistic they can do so by next week, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau i...
Oct 18, 2016

What if Trump never concedes the election: 'Rigged' talk raises vexing scenario
WASHINGTON - Scolded by his own party, slammed by the president as a whiner and censured by the chattering classes as a threat to American democracy, Donald Trump stuck to his guns Tuesday and insiste...
Oct 18, 2016