Category Archives: Canada
B.C. coroner, police, politicians issue overdose alert after 11 deaths
VANCOUVER - An urgent warning has been sent out to illicit drug users in British Columbia after 11 people died in the province on Thursday alone, six of them in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. Th...
Dec 16, 2016
Status of Women spent $1.1 million to create new office for minister: documents
OTTAWA - Status of Women Minister Patty Hajdu approved a $1.1-million price tag to build a new suite of offices for herself and her staff earlier this year, even though she was told the cost might rai...
Dec 16, 2016
Trudeau will wait to comment on Trump's pledge to open Jerusalem embassy
MONTREAL - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he’ll wait to comment on the consequences of the United States moving its Israeli embassy to Jerusalem until president-elect Donald Trump ...
Dec 16, 2016
Edmonton police make arrest in 2014 killing of woman found in shed
Edmonton police have charged a man with killing a woman whose body was found in a storage shed two years ago. Freda Goodrunning, a 35-year-old mother of six from the Sunchild ...
Dec 16, 2016
Yahoo faces proposed Canadian class action over compromised user info
TORONTO - Yahoo is now facing a proposed class action on behalf of Canadians whose personal information may have been stolen, according to a notice of action filed Friday. The $50-million claim would ...
Dec 16, 2016
Soldier sentenced to six years in child porn case
BELLEVILLE, Ont. - A Canadian Armed Forces sergeant based at CFB Trenton in eastern Ontario has been sentenced to six years in prison for child pornography offences and arranging to commit a sexu...
Dec 16, 2016

Maximum fines for B.C. farm, director after guilty pleas in cattle-abuse case
CHILLIWACK, B.C. - A company that owns a dairy farm in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley will be fined the maximum amount for failing to prevent “deeply disturbing, very callous” abus...
Dec 16, 2016
Investigation, cleanup underway after riot at Saskatchewan Penitentiary
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A Saskatchewan prison where a riot took place this week had the most complaints of any penitentiaries in the country last year, says Canada’s prisoners’ ombudsm...
Dec 16, 2016

Trudeau and Couillard hopeful Ottawa will reach a deal with Bombardier
MONTREAL - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says negotiations with Bombardier Inc. are going well but he wouldn’t say Friday if the federal government is close to reaching a deal wit...
Dec 16, 2016
Quebec coroner says man who killed Forces soldier in 2014 wanted more victims
MONTREAL - The Quebec man who killed a Canadian Forces warrant officer in 2014 wanted more victims, according to a coroner’s report. Patrice Vincent, 53, was killed in the parking lot of a ...
Dec 16, 2016