Category Archives: Canada
Ontario man with sword threatens to behead woman who offered him coffee: police
KINGSTON, Ont. - A 49-year-old man is facing charges after allegedly waving a sword and threatening to behead a woman who offered him coffee. Police in Kingston, Ont. say the weekend encounter took pl...
Jan 24, 2017
Bald eagle missing after hole cut in enclosure at Thunder Bay, Ont., zoo
A bald eagle is missing at an Ontario zoo after the bird’s enclosure was vandalized. Gordon John, the acting parks manager at Chippewa Wildlife Park in Thunder Bay, Ont., said someone snuck...
Jan 24, 2017
Google, Facebook say they'll soon roll out tools to sift fake Canadian news
OTTAWA - Two of the world’s biggest digital information platforms say they’re getting ready to roll out tools in Canada designed to crack down on so-called “fake news.” The phe...
Jan 24, 2017
Federal Court rejects Quebec professor's bid to condemn Ottawa's Saudi arms deal
OTTAWA - The Federal Court has dismissed a challenge by a Quebec law professor to condemn the federal government’s $15-billion sale of light armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia. University of Mont...
Jan 24, 2017
First Federal of Northern Michigan Bancorp, Inc. Announces Quarterly Cash Dividend
[STK] OTC-PINK:FFNM OTC-QX:FFNM [IN] FIN [SU] DIV — WITH PHOTO — TO BUSINESS EDITORS: First Federal of Northern Michigan Bancorp, Inc. Announces Quarterly Cash Dividend ALPENA, Mich., Jan....
Jan 24, 2017
New Brunswick university says it knows who carved swastika on snow-covered field
SACKVILLE, N.B. - Mount Allison University says it has found the people responsible for etching a swastika into the snow on a campus field. Photos of a swastika carved in the snow at Alumni Field at t...
Jan 24, 2017
Saskatchewan pipeline leak reaction criticized as too slow by Greenpeace
CALGARY - An environmental group says it’s “astonishing” the Saskatchewan government took three days to announce a 200,000-litre pipeline oil leak had fouled farmland ...
Jan 24, 2017

Internet charmed by small band of women who marched in tiny N.S. village
DIGBY, N.S. - When Gwen Wilson and Melissa Merritt decided at the last minute to organize their own women’s march, they were prepared to be the only ones trudging down the sole road in...
Jan 24, 2017

Denis Villeneuve, Ryan Gosling, Canadian animated shorts get Oscar nominations
Canadian Oscar nominees Denis Villeneuve and Ryan Gosling pulled away from their jam-packed schedules Tuesday morning to marvel over their Academy Award kudos. They chatted by phone soon aft...
Jan 24, 2017

White House doubles down on Trump's voter fraud claim
WASHINGTON - The White House on Tuesday stuck firmly to President Donald Trump’s claim that millions of people voted illegally in the November election, but provided no evidence to back up his a...
Jan 24, 2017