Category Archives: Canada

Two people dead in helicopter crash in northern New Brunswick
CAMPBELLTON, N.B. - The co-owner of the Capitales de Quebec baseball team was one of two people killed in a helicopter crash in northern New Brunswick Sunday afternoon. The team’s Facebook page ...
Sep 05, 2016
B.C. Liberals must pull off balancing act on real estate: observers
VANCOUVER - Public outcry over British Columbia’s sizzling real estate market pushed the province’s Liberal government to introduce a foreign-buyers’ tax last month, but uncertainty ...
Sep 05, 2016

May reaffirms UK's post-Brexit support for Canada-EU trade deal: Freeland
HANGZHOU, China - International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland says British Prime Minister Theresa May has reaffirmed her government’s post-Brexit support for Canada’s free trade deal wi...
Sep 05, 2016
Alberta premier walks in pride parade, says province has made big strides
CALGARY - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says the province has made big strides in improving sexual minority rights. Notley took part in Calgary’s annual pride parade on Sunday, noting that since...
Sep 04, 2016

Former CFL pioneer and Norman Kwong dead at 86
CALGARY - The China Clipper sailed to the rescue of more than one professional sports team - as a bruising football fullback, a tenacious front-office manager in the CFL and part-owner of his home-tow...
Sep 04, 2016

Ambrose says she's against Leitch's proposal to screen for 'anti-Canadian values'
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose told CTV that she doesn’t support Kellie Leitch’s proposal to screen new immigrants for “anti-Canadian values.” Leitch, a Conservative...
Sep 04, 2016

Bed bugs remain intractable problem in Montreal as new university year begins
MONTREAL - In the basement of a public housing complex on the outskirts of downtown Montreal is a large walk-in freezer used solely to kill bed bugs. The freezer is a local solution to a problem that ...
Sep 04, 2016

Alberta open to talks on electricity dispute, but says consumers to be protected
EDMONTON - Alberta’s deputy premier says the province is open to negotiating an out-of-court deal to resolve a potential $2-billion power dispute with private operators. But Sarah Hoffman says t...
Sep 04, 2016

A place apart: The abiding power of Newfoundland's fierce spirit of separateness
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Stan Dragland fell for Newfoundland like a lover. The Alberta-born writer was an Ontario-based English literature professor on sabbatical when he got to know the island, and f...
Sep 04, 2016

Rising protectionism complicating softwood, Canada-EU trade deal: feds
HANGZHOU, China - Concerns about the impact of protectionist sentiments on key Canadian trade talks led senior government members to dedicate some of their scarce face time to the issue Sunday with G2...
Sep 04, 2016