Category Archives: Canada
Sex attack survivor's lawsuit raises questions over police warnings
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - She was finishing her last college exams, the Christmas season stretching before her, when she went out for a Saturday night in downtown St. John’s with friends. What sh...
Sep 18, 2016
Soviets 'never short of reasons' for losing at hockey, diplomats found in 1976
OTTAWA - Canadian diplomats wryly noted the Soviets were “never short of reasons” as to why their hockey team stumbled against the world’s best four decades ago, newly declassified d...
Sep 18, 2016
Canadian Food Inspection Agency recalling smoked salmon over listeria concerns
OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is recalling Wild Sockeye Smoked Salmon and Sensations Wild Pacific Smoked Salmon over listeria concerns. In a release issued Saturday night, officials say...
Sep 18, 2016
Media groups push to intervene in Vice Media fight with RCMP
TORONTO - Forcing journalists to act as investigators for police would undermine the critical role news outlets play in a free society, a coalition of media organizations argue in documents filed with...
Sep 18, 2016
'Lost everything:' Economic Downturn forces people to give up animal friends
CALGARY - Surrender never comes easily. An animal information card at the Calgary Humane Society identifies the temporary resident inside as a grey-and-white kitten named “Marilyn” who has...
Sep 18, 2016
Northerners consider new cruise ship rules after giant vessel's voyage
The successful voyage of a mammoth cruise ship through the Northwest Passage has left Arctic officials, industry leaders and local people considering new regulations to govern future transits. The Nun...
Sep 18, 2016
Norwegian says his Philippine kidnapping was 'devastating'
INDANAN, Philippines - A Norwegian man freed by militants after a year of jungle captivity in the southern Philippines described the ordeal Sunday as “devastating,” carrying a backpack wit...
Sep 18, 2016
Researchers work to document lost shipwrecks of the St. Lawrence
MONTREAL - While Sir John Franklin’s doomed search for the Northwest Passage looms large in the Canadian consciousness, thousands of other shipwrecks lie in obscurity at the bottom of the countr...
Sep 18, 2016
A look at the complex evolution of Canada's citizenship laws over the years
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia woman is speaking out after discovering she’s been ensnared by an obscure law that automatically revokes the citizenship of second-generation Canadians that were b...
Sep 18, 2016
'It was a complete shock': Arcane law strips unwitting Canadians of citizenship
VANCOUVER - Byrdie Funk had what some would call a quintessential, small-town Canadian upbringing. At two months old she moved from Mexico with her Canadian parents to a farming community in southern ...
Sep 18, 2016