Category Archives: Canada
Settlement reached in rights case between university, victim of sexual assault
TORONTO - A human rights case between an Ontario university and a sexually assaulted student has been settled, with the Toronto-area institution promising Monday to provide special...
Dec 12, 2016
Some recent prison beatings in Canada
Here are some examples of recent beatings in Canadian jails: Sept. 9, 2016 - Alvin Clifford Chiniquay, 40, beaten at Calgary Remand Centre, dies later in hospital. Thirty-two-year old inmat...
Dec 12, 2016
Canadian actors Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds get Golden Globe nominations
TORONTO - It was a tale of two Ryans during Monday’s Golden Globe nominations announcement, with Canadians Ryan Gosling and Ryan Reynolds both making the cut in the same category. Gosling o...
Dec 12, 2016
Sudden spike in prison violence 'a problem right across the country'
HALIFAX - It’s 26 seconds of brutality - and lays bare the emerging reality of a growing number of beatings in Canada’s jails. Inmate Dwayne Wright, watching telev...
Dec 12, 2016
Parliamentary budget office digging into Super Hornet fighter jet costs
OTTAWA - Six years after ripping into the Conservative government’s cost estimates for F-35 stealth fighters, Parliament’s budgetary watchdog says it is digging into the “interimR...
Dec 12, 2016
Feds ease rules on supervised drug injection sites, mail inspections at border
OTTAWA - The federal government is adopting a public-health approach to its drug control strategy, Health Minister Jane Philpott said Monday as she unveiled proposed new measures that would ...
Dec 12, 2016
Four stories in the news today, Dec. 12
Four stories in the news for Monday, Dec. 12 --- NEW STUDY SAYS DAYCARE COSTS FAR OUTPACING INFLATION The cost of child care fees in some of Canada’s major cities has skyrocketed over ...
Dec 12, 2016
Pre-winter storms move eastward across the country
TORONTO - The official start of winter may still be a week and half away, but The Great White North is already living up to its namesake. Snow began falling in southern Ontario Sunday night and c...
Dec 12, 2016
Son asks convicted killer: 'Travis Vader, where are the bodies of my parents?'
EDMONTON - Married for 57 years, they were kindred spirits and called each other darling. Lyle McCann, 78, was known for his patience, a retired long-haul trucker who liked to play crib...
Dec 12, 2016
Girl who was subject of Amber Alert found safe in Hamilton, mother charged
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. - Police say a nine-year-old Ontario girl who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe and her mother has been arrested. Niagara regional police say they found La...
Dec 12, 2016