Category Archives: Canada
Adoption up, euthanasia down at animal shelters across Canada: report
Adoptions are up, euthanasia is down and the number of homeless pets in Canada’s animal shelters is lower, according to a report by the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies. Overall, there we...
Dec 22, 2016
University of Montreal set to lock out veterinary teachers
MONTREAL - The University of Montreal says clinician teachers at its faculty of veterinary medicine will be locked out indefinitely as of noon on Thursday. The decision comes as the teachers based in ...
Dec 21, 2016
Most Canadians will have white Christmas, meteorologist says
TORONTO - The Weather Network says most Canadians dreaming of a white Christmas will have something to celebrate this year. Chief Meteorologist Chris Scott says large swaths of the country will see&nb...
Dec 21, 2016
Canadians sent home for trying to sneak cat into New Zealand
WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A Canadian woman who authorities say managed to hide her 4-year-old pet cat Bella in her handbag during a trans-Pacific flight had her vacation cut short when border agents d...
Dec 21, 2016
Owl doing OK after being hit by SUV, getting stuck in front grill
CAMROSE, Alta. - Some high school students, a teacher, and a Alberta fish and wildlife officer worked together to free a Great horned owl stuck in the front grill of an SUV. T...
Dec 21, 2016
No jail time for Mountie in violent arrest, assault of youth in Terrace, B.C.
TERRACE, B.C. - A RCMP officer will not spend time in jail for assaulting a teenager in Terrace, B.C., during a violent arrest more than two years ago. However the suspended sentence handed ...
Dec 21, 2016
No quick end to bovine TB disaster despite lack of new cases: CFIA
OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency says it has not found any new cases of bovine tuberculosis in the last week, though it could take several more months to sound the all clear. Cattle ranche...
Dec 21, 2016
Trudeau says government's plans aimed at preventing anti-trade backlash
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau says his government’s focus on bolstering the middle class is aimed at insulating Canada from the kind of populist rage that is fuelling political upheaval elsewhere arou...
Dec 21, 2016
Calgary mayor raises 2026 Olympic bid with prime minister; says it was 'cursory'
Calgary’s potential bid to host the 2026 Olympic Winter Games was on the agenda in a meeting between Mayor Naheed Nenshi and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. “It was very cursory,”...
Dec 21, 2016
'Knees together' judge gets extra time to file response to judicial council
CALGARY - The Canadian Judicial Council says a judge who asked a sex assault complainant why she couldn’t keep her knees together has been given more time to respond to a recommendation he ...
Dec 21, 2016