Category Archives: Canada

Heckles, jeers and turned backs greet Justin Trudeau at youth labour forum
OTTAWA - Dozens of delegates at a youth labour forum turned their backs Tuesday on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, using body language to express their frustrations with everything from ...
Oct 25, 2016
British Airways flight makes emergency landing in Vancouver with ill crew
VANCOUVER - British Airways says a plane travelling from San Francisco to London diverted to Vancouver after members of the crew reported feeling ill. The airline said 22 crew members and about two pa...
Oct 25, 2016

'Another sad day in the neighbourhood' as Ontario nurse charged with 8 murders
WOODSTOCK, Ont. - Members of a southwestern Ontario community that is no stranger to tragedy expressed shock and outrage Tuesday after learning that a local nurse was accused of killing ...
Oct 25, 2016

Paul Beatty beats out Canadians Thien, Szalay as Man Booker Prize winner
LONDON - Paul Beatty has won the Man Booker Prize for fiction for “The Sellout.” He is the first American novelist to take the prestigious literary award. Judges said Beatty’s p...
Oct 25, 2016
Five stories in the news today, Oct. 25
Five stories in the news for Tuesday, Oct. 25 --- DENNIS OLAND BAIL HEARING SCHEDULED FOR TODAY Dennis Oland could be released from custody today, 10 months after a jury convicted him of second-d...
Oct 25, 2016

Yukon Party promises to fight federal carbon tax amid territorial election
WHITEHORSE - The federal government’s carbon tax strategy is dominating Yukon’s territorial election, with the leader of the long-governing party promising to fight the levy whil...
Oct 25, 2016
Animal welfare groups hire former top bureaucrat to investigate Ontario SPCA
TORONTO - A longtime bureaucrat who helped write animal welfare laws in Ontario has been hired by two non-profit organizations to perform a deep dive into the agency charged with enforcing those laws....
Oct 25, 2016

New Brunswick court grants Dennis Oland bail pending new murder trial
FREDERICTON - Dennis Oland held hands with his wife and children as he exited by the front door of the Fredericton courthouse Tuesday, free on bail a day after an appeal court...
Oct 25, 2016

Sinking of tug off B.C. coast prompts disaster-response rethink: minister
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - A sunken tug and the subsequent diesel spill on British Columbia’s central coast is prompting a rethink to emergency response that could allow those close...
Oct 24, 2016
Figuring out actual benefits of federal spending could take years: Poloz
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada governor says it could take years of sifting through data before economists will know the actual impact of today’s federal spending measures aimed at b...
Oct 24, 2016