Category Archives: Canada
Flower power: Group hands blooms to welcome women in hijabs at transit stop
EDMONTON - Women wearing hijabs received flowers Wednesday as they waited at an Edmonton light-rail transit station where two Muslim women were targeted in what police say could be a hate crime. ...
Dec 07, 2016

The Thursday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Dec. 8 JOHN GLENN DEAD AT 95: American astronaut John Glenn is dead at age 95. Glenn was the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth, which ...
Dec 07, 2016
RCMP fabricated response to access-to-info request 'unacceptable:' Goodale
OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says it’s “unacceptable” that an RCMP employee fabricated a response to an access-to-information request. Goodale says the individual in...
Dec 07, 2016
Proposed changes to StatCan designed to end political interference: Bains
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are moving on their promise to build a political firewall around Statistics Canada, but the fine print of the proposed legislative changes would maintain the governm...
Dec 07, 2016
Deadly synthetic opioid carfentanil seized in Toronto for 1st time, police say
TORONTO - Police in Toronto say they’ve made their first confirmed seizure of the deadly drug carfentanil. They said Wednesday in a release that analysis of recently seized substances purpo...
Dec 07, 2016
Interim Bloc Quebecois leader not interested in the job on a permanent basis
OTTAWA - The interim Bloc Quebecois leader says he isn’t interested in the job on a permanent basis. Rheal Fortin, who has headed the party since last year’s federal electio...
Dec 07, 2016

Premiers to push PM on health transfers over dinner after climate talks wrap up
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sitting down with premiers to finalize a long-awaited national plan on climate change, but once those discussions wrap up, they will move right into a heated ...
Dec 07, 2016
Technical hurdles mean no body-worn cameras for Mounties, for the time being
OTTAWA - Mounties won’t be wearing tiny video cameras - at least for now. The RCMP says it is postponing the deployment of body-worn cameras after testing revealed technical problems, inclu...
Dec 07, 2016
Funeral held in Mount Hope, Ont., for pilot killed in CF-18 crash
MOUNT HOPE, Ont. - A military funeral for a Canadian Air Force pilot killed in a plane crash last week was held Wednesday at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Mount Hope, Ont. Capt. Thomas...
Dec 07, 2016
More cattle put into quarantine, but officials 'optimistic' worst is over
OTTAWA - The quarantine of cattle in a western Canada bovine tuberculosis outbreak continues to grow, even as no new confirmed cases of the disease have been found. Officials said Wednesday, however, ...
Dec 07, 2016