Category Archives: Canada

Alberta ending separate offices for climate change, environmental monitoring
EDMONTON - Alberta's United Conservative government is eliminating stand-alone offices for climate change policy and environmental monitoring. Some say the move will damage the province's ability to m...
Sep 13, 2019

Alberta investigating after medical examiner uses truck trailer for body storage
EDMONTON - The Alberta government has made changes and apologized to the families involved after video was aired of a deceased person in a body bag being manhandled outside the medical examiner's...
Sep 13, 2019

The Force is with him: Alberta boy gets 'Star Wars' model of his heart
EDMONTON - The Force is with this young transplant patient. Mason Thomas was six when he received a new heart at the Stollery Children's Hospital in Edmonton. He asked to see his damaged one...
Sep 13, 2019

Engineers have approved a plan to begin removal of crane toppled by Dorian
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia's labour minister says work will begin this weekend to remove a huge construction crane that collapsed in Halifax during Hurricane Dorian. The twisted, yellow structure is draped...
Sep 13, 2019

Ex-hostage Boyle demanded wife lose weight as means of control: prosecutor
OTTAWA - A Crown attorney has accused Joshua Boyle of dictating strict weight-loss targets for wife Caitlan Coleman after the couple were freed as hostages of Taliban-linked captors. Prosecutor J...
Sep 13, 2019

Mounties lay secrets-law charges against one of their own
OTTAWA - The RCMP has charged one of its own with several offences under Canada's official-secrets law. The national police force says Cameron Ortis was charged under three sections of the Security of...
Sep 13, 2019

Quebec court invalidates parts of medical aid in dying laws as too restrictive
MONTREAL - A Quebec Superior Court judge has invalidated sections of both the federal and Quebec laws on medically assisted dying, ruling Wednesday they were too restrictive and therefore unconst...
Sep 13, 2019

Pipeline construction hampered by hearings, permits, court action: report
VANCOUVER - Construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion will likely be delayed due to detailed route hearings, outstanding provincial permits and Indigenous court challenges, says a report f...
Sep 13, 2019

Maritime grids, forestry, coastlines need rethink in era of intense storms: experts
HALIFAX - In an era when the intensity of hurricanes is expected to increase across Atlantic Canada, experts say major changes are needed to utility grids, shoreline defences ...
Sep 13, 2019

'Staring at me:' Oldest known spider ancestor found in Burgess Shale
Tiny eyes blinking at him from the rockface of the Burgess Shale drew Jean-Bernard Caron to the fossil of the oldest known ancestor of today's spiders and scorpions. "I was sitting there along the qua...
Sep 13, 2019