Category Archives: Canada

Refugee changes will hurt women asylum seekers, women's organizations say
OTTAWA - A group of Canadian women's organizations is calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to withdraw controversial changes to asylum laws included in an omnibus budget bill, saying they will har...
May 08, 2019

CP NewsAlert: Winnipeg man guilty of murder in Indigenous woman's death
WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg man has been convicted of murdering an Indigenous woman in what Crown prosecutors called a crime worse than any horror movie. A jury found Brett Ronald Overby, who...
May 08, 2019

Lawmakers mark 35th anniversary of 1984 Quebec legislature attack
Quebec lawmakers held a moment of silence today to mark the 35th anniversary of an attack at the provincial legislature that left three dead and 13 injured. On May 8, 1984, Canadian Armed Forces Cpl. ...
May 08, 2019

Police believe they have found remains of Calgary woman and her toddler in woods
CALGARY - Police in Calgary say second-degree murder charges are pending against a man after they found the bodies of a woman and toddler who were reported missing nearly two weeks...
May 08, 2019

Caretaker of vacant Victoria hotel still missing, 48 hours after blaze
VICTORIA - Days after flames tore through a vacant hotel in Victoria, one man is still missing and smoke lingers, forcing the closure of city hall and several other businesses. The...
May 08, 2019

Humans' racket a growing threat to East Coast whales, scientists warn
HALIFAX - A human-made racket under the ocean is a growing threat to three types of whales off the East Coast, Canadian scientists say. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada rel...
May 08, 2019

Wildlife advocate questions decision to kill pigeons pooping on Saskatoon bridge
SASKATOON - Crews tasked with cleaning a Saskatchewan bridge are in for a dirty job. The City of Saskatoon says that over the last 50 years one of its bridges has accumulated nearly 350...
May 08, 2019

A leak, a probe, a case closed: A timeline of the Mark Norman saga
OTTAWA - The decision Wednesday to stay a breach-of-trust charge against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman has ended his criminal case but his future in the military is unclear. What's happened so fa...
May 08, 2019

Greenhouses gas causing Canadian Arctic seas to acidify quicker: report
Research suggests that greenhouse gases are turning Canada's Arctic waters acidic at a faster rate than anywhere else in the North. The results were presented to the eight countries that ring the Arct...
May 08, 2019

U.S. threatens to pull F-35 from jet competition over industrial requirements
OTTAWA - U.S. officials have threatened to pull the F-35 out of the competition to replace the Royal Canadian Air Force's aging CF-18 fighters over the Liberal government's plan to ask bidders to re-i...
May 08, 2019