Category Archives: Canada

Oland murder case highlights having enough money can be key to successful defence
FREDERICTON - Legal experts say Dennis Oland didn't get any special treatment before the courts in his murder re-trial, but the case shows how having money can make a difference in mounting a successf...
Jul 22, 2019

Health officials to meet with Attawapiskat families about water: O'Regan
OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Seamus O'Regan says the federal government is committing more assistance for a northern Ontario reserve facing challenges with its water supply, including sending...
Jul 22, 2019

Food fight: Liberals, Tories trade shots as pre-campaign battles intensify
OTTAWA - Health Minister Ginette Petitpas Taylor is trying to distinguish the Liberals as a party of scientific, evidence-based policy while she says Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is spreading mis...
Jul 22, 2019

The Canadian Press appoints veteran Andrea Baillie as editor-in-chief
TORONTO - The Canadian Press is promoting managing editor Andrea Baillie to editor-in-chief, the first woman to oversee editorial operations at the national news wire. The veteran wire ...
Jul 22, 2019

Huawei Canada says it met federal security requirements for new Arctic 4G project
OTTAWA - Huawei Canada says it has received federal approval to work with a northern telecom company and an Inuit development corporation to extend high-speed 4G wireless services to 70 communities in...
Jul 22, 2019

Provincial police suspend aerial search for missing businessman, son
MONTREAL - Quebec provincial police are suspending helicopter searches today for a Quebec businessman and his teen son missing for 12 days somewhere in a vast area of the upper Laurentians. Police say...
Jul 22, 2019

Federal money to help veterans find housing, basic services
OTTAWA - A Montreal project to help homeless veterans find a place to live and other necessary services is among 22 initiatives receiving federal money from a fund that suppor...
Jul 22, 2019

Air Force will end search for missing Quebec businessman and his son
MONTREAL - The Royal Canadian Air Force said Saturday it will gradually reduce its search operations for a missing Quebec businessman and his son before handing the case over to the pro...
Jul 22, 2019

Two men go missing in northern B.C. near where body is found
DEASE LAKE, B.C. - RCMP in northern British Columbia are searching for two young Vancouver Island men whose vehicle was discovered on fire Friday in the same area where police say a body was...
Jul 22, 2019

Crime rate rose in 2018 but country still safer than a decade ago
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the country's crime rate ticked up again in 2018, for a fourth year in a row, though it was still lower than it was a decade ago.The severity of crime also rose by two ...
Jul 22, 2019