Category Archives: Canada

After hundreds of complaints, regulator examines new trimmed-down TV packs
OTTAWA - The national broadcast regulator and the country’s four biggest television service providers are in for an earful this week over the rollout earlier this year of so-called ski...
Sep 06, 2016

Scores of Canadians excluded from assisted dying law eager to join legal challenge
OTTAWA - Scores of suffering Canadians who’ve been excluded from the federal government’s restrictive eligibility criteria for medical assistance in dying are lining up ...
Sep 06, 2016

Friends mourn Quebec singer killed in helicopter crash in northern New Brunswick
Friends say they’re struggling to come to terms with the death of a Quebec singer and former amateur hockey player who died in a helicopter crash Sunday. Roberto Bissonnette was k...
Sep 06, 2016

Former CFL pioneer and Norman Kwong dead at 86
CALGARY - The China Clipper sailed to the rescue of more than one professional sports team - as a bruising football fullback, a tenacious front-office manager in the CFL and part-owner of his hom...
Sep 06, 2016
Seven stories in the news today, Sept. 6
Seven stories in the news today from The Canadian Press --- PM TRUDEAU HONOURS WAR DEAD IN HONG KONG Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paid homage Tuesday to Canadian soldiers who died after fig...
Sep 06, 2016

Ambrose says she's against Leitch's proposal to screen for 'anti-Canadian values'
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose told CTV that she doesn’t support Kellie Leitch’s proposal to screen new immigrants for “anti-Canadian values.” Leitch, a Conservative...
Sep 06, 2016

Bed bugs remain intractable problem in Montreal as new university year begins
MONTREAL - In the basement of a public housing complex on the outskirts of downtown Montreal is a large walk-in freezer used solely to kill bed bugs. The freezer is a local solution to a problem that ...
Sep 06, 2016

Veterans Affairs data gives detailed picture of veterans using medical marijuana
OTTAWA - When he opened a medical marijuana shop in Kingston earlier this year, Trevor Hands had little idea who his customers would be, how much they would buy or how his business would grow simply t...
Sep 06, 2016
Appeal court reviewing trucker's acquittal in indigenous woman's death
EDMONTON - The Alberta Court of Appeal is hearing arguments on whether to overturn a controversial acquittal of an Ontario trucker charged with killing an indigenous woman. Last year, a jury found Bra...
Sep 06, 2016

Coast Guard emphasizes safety on water after 1,500 Americans float into Canada
The image of hundreds of Americans on inflatable rafts and makeshift platforms bobbing helplessly down the St. Clair River as strong winds pushed them towards the Canadian shore is one Peter Garapick ...
Sep 06, 2016