Category Archives: Canada

Lionel Desmond offered bed on psychiatric ward, fatality inquiry told
GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - A fatality inquiry in Nova Scotia has heard that the night a mentally ill former soldier sought help at a hospital in Antigonish, N.S., there were beds available in ...
Feb 05, 2020

Send black boxes from Iran plane crash to France, Champagne demands
OTTAWA - Canada's foreign minister says he's asked for international help to pressure Iran to give up the black boxes recovered from the wreckage of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752. F...
Feb 05, 2020

Probe begins after former hockey player killed during Quebec police intervention
ST-GEORGES, Que. - Quebec's independent police watchdog is investigating after a former hockey player who toiled for several years in a Quebec minor league was killed in ...
Feb 05, 2020

Non-citizen parents allowed to return home with Canadian children from Wuhan
OTTAWA - The Liberal government insisted China let parents and other primary caregivers accompany their Canadian children after leaving Wuhan, the epicentre of an outbreak of the novel coron...
Feb 05, 2020

Green party's leadership race rules, entry fee has some candidates balking
OTTAWA - The Green party's leadership contest is getting off to a rough start with at least three people reconsidering a run after the party established a $50,000 entry fee and a secretive v...
Feb 05, 2020

Putin remains coy on future and Trump plans to run, and win; In The News for Feb. 5
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 5 ... What ...
Feb 05, 2020

Cyberspies mistakenly eyed Canadian for five years, watchdog report says
OTTAWA - The national cyberspying agency monitored a Canadian citizen, contrary to policy, for several years due to a series of internal mistakes, a newly released watchdog report says....
Feb 05, 2020

Husband of Iran plane crash victim seeks answers, justice from investigation
OTTAWA - The husband of one of the victims who died when a Ukrainian jetliner was shot down by the Iranian military last month wants the people he says ordered his wife's death to be charged and tried...
Feb 05, 2020

More than 100 military procurements facing delays: Defence Department
OTTAWA - The Department of National Defence has identified delays in more than 100 planned military purchases and facility upgrades, most of which have flown under the radar as attention has focused o...
Feb 05, 2020

MPs warned to watch their words after MP asked if she'd ever considered sex work
OTTAWA - Members of Parliament are being told to think twice about how they're framing the ideas they advance in the House of Commons after a Tory MP asked a New Democrat whether she'd ever considered...
Feb 04, 2020