Category Archives: Canada
Solving the legacy of indigenous sexual abuse: think globally, act nationally
Fred Kejick Thomas remembers the exact day - April 14, 2005 - when he confronted the uncle who had sexually molested him out on a trap line when he was four years ol...
Dec 04, 2016
Quebec police seek 22-year-old Hull inmate who fled from Gatineau hospital
MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police are asking the public to be on the lookout for an inmate who fled from a Gatineau hospital on Saturday. They say 22-year-old David Harvey injured a hospit...
Dec 04, 2016
Quebec and N.L.: Why peace won't come quickly between Canada's uneasy neighbours
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - They are arguably the least friendly neighbours in Confederation. Newfoundland and Labrador has been feuding with Quebec since before the Atlantic province joined Ca...
Dec 04, 2016
Federal subsidy failing to keep northern food healthy, affordable: study
A researcher has found that a federal subsidy intended to reduce astronomical food prices for northern families has resulted in stale-dated, unreliable food on store shelves without making grocer...
Dec 04, 2016
Six things to know about the bovine TB outbreak: CFIA's chief veterinary officer
OTTAWA - More than 22,000 cattle at farms in Alberta and Saskatchewan are quarantined due to bovine tuberculosis, causing hardship for ranchers and millions in compensation payments and othe...
Dec 04, 2016
Office design, economic setbacks spur jump in corporate art collection auctions
CALGARY - When Xerox Canada moved its Toronto headquarters into a 33,500-square-foot building in North York in August, it just couldn’t find a place for Dance of the Owl. The square stonecu...
Dec 04, 2016
Montreal's social-media-savvy religious sisters embrace modern devotion
MONTREAL - Sheila Sullivan was one of 58 prospective religious sisters to join Montreal’s Congregation de Notre-Dame in 1964. In 2016, only one woman in Canada has ...
Dec 04, 2016
Vancouver mayor's national profile on the rise in pipeline debate
VANCOUVER - The ever-simmering world of pipeline politics is once again threatening to boil over after the federal government approved the Trans Mountain project, as...
Dec 04, 2016
New PQ leader wants to work 'within the system' to defend Quebec's interests
MONTREAL - Canadians can breathe easier with the new Parti Quebecois leader, a pragmatic and wily politician who promises that if elected premier in 2018, he won’t hold a sov...
Dec 04, 2016
Some facts about Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson
VANCOUVER - A sketch of Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson, who is also an outspoken climate crusader: Born: Sept. 18, 1964, in North Vancouver (age: 52). Professional background: He started a...
Dec 04, 2016