Category Archives: Canada
Manitoba child services won't return toddler to social worker grandmother
WINNIPEG - A supervisor with a Manitoba indigenous child-welfare agency says her grandson has been apprehended by another agency and authorities won’t give her temporary custody despite her 15-y...
Oct 07, 2016
Hurricane Matthew sends Caribbean-bound cruise to Maritimes instead
HALIFAX - Hurricane Matthew has forced a Disney cruise ship scheduled for a southern jaunt to divert to Atlantic Canada. The Disney Magic was to leave New York City Friday for the Bahamas and Flo...
Oct 07, 2016
New Brunswick lawsuit alleges abuse by former chaplain, Roman Catholic priests
MONCTON, N.B. - New Brunswick’s Roman Catholic church is facing new accusations that several of its priests were involved in the sexual abuse of youth, including a lawsuit allegin...
Oct 07, 2016
First Nation school repairs shortchanged due to budget pressures: documents
OTTAWA - Documents tabled in Parliament show that federal budget tightening over the last three years forced officials to siphon millions away from badly needed school repairs on reserves to deal with...
Oct 07, 2016
RCMP investigating two switched-at-birth cases in northern Manitoba
NORWAY HOUSE, Man. - The RCMP is investigating two cases of babies who were switched at birth at a northern Manitoba hospital more than 40 years ago. The two cases involve four men, who went...
Oct 07, 2016
Bones, tools unearthed by Alberta flood could fill gaps in First Nations history
ROCKYVIEW, Alta. - Archeologists are hoping bones and tools unearthed after the 2013 southern Alberta floods will help paint a better picture of a little understood period in the region’s indige...
Oct 07, 2016
Homes, women workers and mental health: three ways politics mattered this week
OTTAWA - Is it a price or is it a tax? When Prime Minister Justin Trudeau inadvertently used the Conservatives’ favoured word “tax” to describe this week’s new measures on gree...
Oct 07, 2016
Maybe he'll wear lederhosen next year, Trudeau tells Oktoberfesters
KITCHENER, Ont. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau kicked off the city’s renowned Oktoberfest Friday, telling an appreciative crowd that he might wear lederhosen next year. On an unusually warm day...
Oct 07, 2016
Canadians may face higher mortgage rates with changes, mortgage brokers say
OTTAWA - Mortgage lending changes by the federal government are going to make it harder for non-bank lenders to operate and could see Canadians pay higher rates on their loans, mortgage brokers w...
Oct 07, 2016
'Saskatchewan's interests:' Premier mulls legal options on federal carbon tax
REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall came out swinging Friday against the federal government’s intention to impose a carbon tax, questioning whether it would be legal and whether Ot...
Oct 07, 2016