Category Archives: Canada
Drawn to the wild! Canada's growing love for exotic pets has experts worried
KAWARTHA LAKES, Ont. - As the sun sets over the sprawling property in rural Ontario, the farmhouse party gets into full swing. The host walks around chatting up the guests, two&nbs...
Oct 03, 2016
Band councillor decries brown, smelly water pouring from taps on N.S. reserve
ST. PETERS, N.S. - Residents of a Cape Breton native reserve are fed up with the brown, smelly water that is coming out of their taps and want Ottawa to come up with a permanent fix, a council me...
Oct 03, 2016
Feds seek to ease housing market risks, slow influx of foreign cash
TORONTO - The federal government is taking steps to ease emerging risks in the country’s housing market with new measures to slow the injection of foreign cash and ...
Oct 03, 2016
Seven stories in the news today, Oct. 3
Seven stories in the news for Monday, Oct. 3 --- LAWYERS BACK IN COURT AFTER FLAWED MURDER VERDICT Defence lawyers and prosecutors return to an Edmonton courtroom today, two weeks after a judge&...
Oct 03, 2016
Figures show Liberals set to fall short on promise of 5,000 green jobs for youth
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are being accused of breaking a promise to young Canadians with figures showing the government is falling well short of last year’s campaign pledge&n...
Oct 03, 2016
Woman who gave water to pigs headed to slaughter testifies at her mischief trial
BURLINGTON, Ont. - A Toronto woman who is on trial for giving water to pigs on their way to slaughter told court on Monday that feeding bacon to children is tantamount to child abu...
Oct 03, 2016
Edmonton judge hearing mistrial application in Travis Vader murder case
EDMONTON - An Edmonton judge who used an unconstitutional section of the Criminal Code in his murder verdict is considering whether or not to grant a mistrial in the case. Crown and defence lawye...
Oct 03, 2016
Farm groups say they can't get grain transport meeting with transport minister
EDMONTON - The Canadian Federation of Agriculture says the federal government isn’t paying enough attention to concerns from farmers about a report that calls for major changes to grain rai...
Oct 03, 2016
Royal visit makes Whitehorse inn 'world's most-popular three-star hotel'
WHITEHORSE - A hotel in Yukon’s capital is talking itself up as the “world’s most popular three star hotel” after hosting the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and gettin...
Oct 03, 2016
Saskatchewan's Brad Wall lashes out at Trudeau over 'unilateral' carbon tax
MONTREAL - Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall tore a strip off Justin Trudeau while frustrated environment ministers walked out on their federal counterpart Monday after the prime minister ...
Oct 03, 2016