Category Archives: Canada
Alberta says deal reached to settle dispute with Christian school association
GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. - Alberta’s largest home-schooling agency is back in business but on a tight financial leash following a messy court dispute involving allegations of misspending ...
Jan 05, 2017
Winnipeg police investigating hate crime after anti-Semitic incident
Winnipeg police are investigating after a couple say they came home New Year’s Eve to find a large rock painted with an anti-Semitic message near their front steps. B’nai Brith says the ho...
Jan 05, 2017
Nine-year term urged for U.S. man who plotted sex with 13-year-old Canadian
TORONTO - American prosecutors are pushing for a nine-year prison term and indefinite probation for a man who flew to Canada to have sex with a 13-year-old girl who had sent him nude videos. In pushin...
Jan 05, 2017
Soldier denied promotion due to PTSD should have case reviewed: court
A Canadian Armed Forces soldier who was denied a promotion because his post-traumatic stress disorder prevented him from completing a required course should have his case re-evaluated to ref...
Jan 05, 2017
'I will fix it,' struggling ex-soldier said before Nova Scotia murder-suicides
A clearer picture is emerging of the former soldier involved in an apparent murder-suicide in Nova Scotia, with his own words on social media revealing a man struggling with PTSD w...
Jan 05, 2017
East Coast business magazine trolled, praised over issue dedicated to women
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The executive editor of Atlantic Business Magazine says their first issue dedicated to women has created some backlash from online trolls. Executive editor Dawn Chaf...
Jan 05, 2017
Suspects sought after several guns stolen from Alberta Mountie's home
KILLAM, Alta. - More than a dozen guns, including what police call a tactical rifle, have been stolen from the home of an Alberta RCMP officer. Mounties say the firearms were inside a gun sa...
Jan 05, 2017
Family of Montreal woman killed by dog suing canine's owner
MONTREAL - The family of a woman who died after being attacked by a dog says it plans to sue the canine’s owner. Lise Vadnais, whose sister Christiane died in her backyard last Ju...
Jan 05, 2017
Living close to high-traffic roadway raises dementia risk, study suggests
TORONTO - People who live in close proximity to high-traffic roadways appear to have a higher risk of dementia than those who live farther away, say researchers, suggesting that&nb...
Jan 05, 2017
Woman hears from Irish man who found bottle message sent by dad before he died
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A message in a bottle flung from a vessel off Labrador 12 years ago has been found on the shores of Ireland, five years after the death of its Canadian sender. The bottle...
Jan 05, 2017