Category Archives: Canada
The royals are coming: A timeline of memorable visits to Canada over the years
VANCOUVER - Prince William and his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, are set to visit British Columbia with their two young children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte. The House of Windsor has a clo...
Sep 21, 2016

Prince William's visit to B.C. draws memories of frenzied 1998 trip
VANCOUVER - The screams were deafening. It was March 24, 1998, and hundreds of teenage girls were crammed behind barriers outside a suburban Vancouver high school. The girls weren’t squealing fo...
Sep 21, 2016
DNA tests confirm second switched-at-birth case in northern Manitoba
NORWAY HOUSE, Man. - A second set of DNA tests have confirmed that two men were switched at birth at a hospital in northern Manitoba in 1975. Former Manitoba aboriginal affairs minister Eric Robi...
Sep 21, 2016

'No going back': Tory MP Jason Kenney tweets his resignation letter
OTTAWA - Calgary Conservative Jason Kenney is officially stepping down as an MP this week. Kenney tweeted a photo of his resignation letter, dated Tuesday, to Speaker Geoff Regan, in which he say...
Sep 20, 2016
Ministers, PMO staffers get $1.1M in expenses for relocating to Ottawa
OTTAWA - Taxpayers forked out $1.1 million to move some four dozen political staffers to Ottawa after Justin Trudeau’s Liberals won power last fall. That includes just over $220,000 in relo...
Sep 20, 2016
WestJet reaches deal to fly Suncor employees to Northern Alberta oilsands operations
CALGARY - WestJet (TSX:WJA) has reached a multi-year deal with Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) to fly employees and contractors to and from its oilsands operations in Northern Alberta beginning in ea...
Sep 20, 2016

Friend questions police investigation after missing woman found dead in B.C.
A family friend of a Saskatchewan woman found dead in a forested area of British Columbia hopes a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women will look into why police p...
Sep 20, 2016
More people would cast ballots under proportional representation: report
WINNIPEG - More Manitobans would be likely to make the effort to vote if the province adopted proportional representation, says a report released by Elections Manitoba. The report by Pr...
Sep 20, 2016

Halifax police officer challenges demotion over incident during traffic stop
HALIFAX - A Halifax police officer is challenging his demotion after he was involved in a routine traffic stop last year that degenerated into a ugly confrontation with a P.E.I. couple heade...
Sep 20, 2016

Couche-Tard chairman still sees opportunity to extend founders' voting control
LAVAL, Que. - Alimentation Couche-Tard’s chairman Alain Bouchard says a solution can be found over the next five years to protect the convenience store chain from the threat of a hostile takeove...
Sep 20, 2016