Category Archives: Canada
More Quebec reporters were under surveillance, this time by provincial police
MONTREAL - The controversy surrounding the surveillance of reporters in Quebec intensified Wednesday as provincial police admitted they monitored the cellphones of several&nbs...
Nov 02, 2016
N.L. man who watched his father murder his mother wants stiffer sentences
A Newfoundland man who was four years old when he saw his father brutally beat his mother to death says he’s living in fear knowing Dale Ogden is out on day parole and believes he should ha...
Nov 02, 2016
A by-the-numbers look at the federal government's latest economic update
OTTAWA - A look at the federal government’s latest economic update, by the numbers: - Deficit to rise to $25.1 billion this year, from the $23.4 billion forecast in last spring...
Nov 02, 2016

The Wednesday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Nov. 2 MORNEAU SAYS INVESTORS WANT INFRASTRUCTURE AGENCY: Canada’s finance minister says the country needs a new agency designed to pu...
Nov 02, 2016
Home school shut down amid allegations of misspending takes Alberta to court
EDMONTON - Two agencies overseeing thousands of home-schooled children in Alberta are asking a court to reverse the province’s decision to pull funding and accreditation over allegatio...
Nov 02, 2016
Timeline of key dates in Liberal Sudbury byelection scandal
SUDBURY, Ont. - The Ontario Provincial Police have laid Election Act bribery charges against a former top staffer of Premier Kathleen Wynne and a Liberal fundraiser. The allegations date back to ...
Nov 02, 2016

African-American early-voter turnout down; Obama sounds alarm bell
FORT LAUDERDALE, United States - U.S. President Barack Obama has sounded the alarm bell about an apparent decline in black voter turnout in this election, pointing to early-voting data that’...
Nov 02, 2016
Lawsuit claims Ottawa doctor used own sperm to impregnate fertility patients
An Ontario doctor once suspended for inseminating women with the wrong sperm at his fertility clinic is now accused of allegedly using his own biological material to impregnate certain patie...
Nov 02, 2016
First Nations housing crisis will take a lifetime to solve: AFN regional chief
WINNIPEG - New federal money for First Nations housing is welcome but will not solve a monumental shortage for at least a generation, an indigenous leader said Wednesday. “I don’...
Nov 02, 2016

'We're leading the way:' Government to run on green power by 2025
CALGARY - The federal Liberals are promising to run all government operations on renewable energy within a decade, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said Wednesday. Speaking in Calgary to th...
Nov 02, 2016