Category Archives: Canada

Marijuana dispensaries selling to recreational users set to open in Montreal
MONTREAL - Several pot dispensaries set to open in Montreal on Thursday will be selling marijuana to recreational users despite federal rules that forbid such shops. Jodie Emery, a mari...
Dec 14, 2016
Former University of British Columbia president David Strangway dies
VANCOUVER - David Strangway, a geophysicist who served as president of the University of British Columbia from 1985 to 1997 and worked for NASA during the Apollo space missions, has died. Univers...
Dec 14, 2016
Former N.S. teacher gets house arrest for sex crimes involving teenaged boys
PICTOU, N.S. - A former Nova Scotia teacher with bipolar disorder who sexually abused one teenage male student and sent sexually explicit texts to another has been sentenced to 15 months of ...
Dec 14, 2016

B.C. town considers deer contraceptive to control animals eating up gardens
OAK BAY, B.C. - Residents of a picturesque community on Vancouver Island have had enough of deer munching on their prized gardens, so a group is looking at whether birth control might h...
Dec 14, 2016

High-risk woman with newborn baby has been found: New Westminster police
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - Police in New Westminster, B.C., say a 39-year-old “high-risk” woman and her newborn baby have been found safe. The New Westminster Police Department had ...
Dec 14, 2016
Recommendations from the Transportation Safety Board on fishing vessels
RICHMOND, B.C. - The Transportation Safety Board issued recommendations to the Transport Department on Wednesday aimed at the commercial fishing industry after the capsizing in September 2015 of ...
Dec 14, 2016
Judge delays ruling for police officers in shooting of New Brunswick businessman
BATHURST, N.B. - Two police officers charged in the fatal shooting of a New Brunswick businessman they mistakenly thought was involved in the drug trade won’t find out until next year wheth...
Dec 14, 2016
N.S. to resume talks with teachers union, as NSGEU reject tentative deal
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government made a bid for peace with the province’s teachers union Wednesday, while another labour battle was brewing with public servants. Premier Steph...
Dec 14, 2016

Ashley Madison's parent company pays US$1.6M in settlements with U.S. government
TORONTO - The Toronto-based parent company of the infidelity dating site Ashley Madison said Wednesday it hoped to have turned the page after reaching settlements in an i...
Dec 14, 2016

Scientists unsure what killed tens of thousands of herring: 'A bit of a mystery'
HALIFAX - Scientists remain baffled by what has caused tens of thousands of dead herring to wash ashore along Nova Scotia’s southwestern coast, despite a battery of tests. “...
Dec 14, 2016