Category Archives: Canada
Fentanyl deaths on the rise in Ontario as the drug creeps eastward
TORONTO - Fentanyl-related deaths are still rising in Ontario, though the province's chief coroner said numbers there aren’t as bleak as those in western Canada, where the crisis originated...
Nov 30, 2016
Report finds pilot overlooked steel cables before fatal Labrador crash
HALIFAX - The pilot of a helicopter that smashed to the ground and fatally pinned one of its passengers underneath failed to notice steel cables as he lifted off from a Labrador helipad, say...
Nov 30, 2016
Arrest made in alleged sexual assault outside stadium of Grey Cup game
TORONTO - A 45-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the alleged sexual assault of a woman outside the stadium where Sunday’s Grey Cup game was played in Toronto. Toronto police said...
Nov 30, 2016
Doctor filmed staffers in Nova Scotia clinic's washroom, police allege
NEW GLASGOW, N.S. - A doctor who fled war-torn Iraq a decade ago has been charged with voyeurism after staff at a Nova Scotia medical clinic were surreptitiously filmed while using the washroom. ...
Nov 30, 2016
Nova Scotia lacks planning for schools, risk plans for infrastructure:auditor
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia approved a new $21 million, Halifax-area school despite evidence it wasn’t needed, the auditor general said Wednesday in a report that slammed the province for poor pl...
Nov 30, 2016
Tragically Hip's Gord Downie performing at We Day youth event in Halifax
HALIFAX - Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie will be performing at a We Day youth empowerment event in Halifax today. His appearance at the event was announced early Wednesday morning, a da...
Nov 30, 2016
Hundreds protest Liberal refusal to act on Island electoral reform plebiscite
CHARLOTTETOWN - Hundreds of people demonstrated in Prince Edward Island on Tuesday evening calling on the provincial government to use the results of a recent plebiscite on electoral reform to ch...
Nov 30, 2016
Messy mix of snow, rain hits Maritimes, causing outages, closures
It could be sometime Thursday before some residents of New Brunswick have their power restored following a messy pre-winter storm - and there’s another storm on the way. A blast of heavy, w...
Nov 30, 2016
CRTC, consumer advocates to keep eye on new cable rules taking effect Thursday
TORONTO - The CRTC and consumer advocates say they’re keeping a close eye on the country’s TV providers as the final phase of new basic cable packages rules are impleme...
Nov 30, 2016
Energy exports help economy bounce back with 3.5% growth in third quarter
OTTAWA - The Canadian economy slightly exceeded expectations in the third quarter to grow at its fastest pace in more than two years and rebound from a second-quarter con...
Nov 30, 2016