Category Archives: Canada

The latest from the Toronto Raptors Game 5 in the NBA Finals
TORONTO - 11:40 p.m. Fans in Toronto's Jurassic Park were in agony as the Raptors came back to take the lead late in the fourth quarter only to fall to the Warriors. Some fans clasped their ...
Jun 12, 2019

Victoria police chief hands out hefty fine to driver who flicked lit butt
VICTORIA - A "lit"terbug was issued a hefty fine after Victoria's police chief caught him flicking a cigarette butt out his car window. Chief Const. Del Manak said he was travelling on a highway in hi...
Jun 12, 2019

Committee of MPs decides against calling for school-bus seatbelts
OTTAWA - A committee of MPs who probed bus-passenger safety in Canada has decided not to call for seatbelts to be installed in Canadian school buses, urging further study instead. The H...
Jun 12, 2019

Court ruling expands Alberta's Blood reserve, Canada's largest
OTTAWA - Canada's largest Indigenous reserve is about to get larger. Federal Court has found that the federal government underestimated the members of the Blood Tribe in southwestern Alberta when thei...
Jun 12, 2019

Styrofoam take-out boxes and straws among expected targets of plastics ban
OTTAWA - A national ban on the most harmful single-use plastics will very likely force restaurants and fast-food outlets to find non-plastic materials for takeout and delivery containers but plas...
Jun 12, 2019

Vice-Admiral Mark Norman acknowledged during navy change of command ceremony
HALIFAX - Vice-Admiral Mark Norman was acknowledged publicly by the chief of the defence staff during a navy ceremony today in Halifax. Questions have swirled around the future of Norman, who has expr...
Jun 12, 2019

Father tells B.C. judge that happy, loving girl, 8, taken for no reason
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. - The father of an eight-year-old girl who was smothered by her mother says a happy, empathetic, sensitive and loving child was taken away from the world for no re...
Jun 12, 2019

Alberta Premier Jason Kenney seeks alliance with Quebec's Francois Legault
MONTREAL - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney says he and Quebec Premier Francois Legault are natural allies in the fight to defend provincial autonomy in the face of federal interventions. H...
Jun 12, 2019

Openly gay legion member presses ahead with discrimination complaint
HALIFAX - A Cape Breton man who says he faced discrimination at his local Royal Canadian Legion because he is gay is pressing ahead with a human rights complaint. Jason McDonald wa...
Jun 12, 2019

Chief military judge's court martial hears about friendship with presiding judge
GATINEAU, Que. - The court martial of Canada's chief military judge kicked off Monday with testimony about Col. Mario Dutil's close professional and "familial" relationship with the judge presiding ov...
Jun 12, 2019