Category Archives: Canada

Police investigation puts fighter pilot call sign meetings under microscope
OTTAWA - A police investigation into comments made at a social gathering of fighter pilots in June has cast a spotlight on a well-known but little-understood military tradition that some worry is anot...
Sep 03, 2022

Conservative leadership hopeful Leslyn Lewis doesn't care what you say about her
OTTAWA - As a highly educated immigrant Black woman with degrees in gender studies, the environment and international law, Conservative leadership hopeful Leslyn Lewis says there is a "left-leaning na...
Sep 03, 2022

Leslyn Lewis: Quick facts about the Conservative leadership candidate
OTTAWA - Leslyn Lewis burst onto the political scene during the 2020 Conservative Party leadership race and became a star in the socially conservative movement. Originally billed as the candidate with...
Sep 03, 2022

Quebec Conservatives hoping to sway anglophone votes away from the Liberals
MONTREAL - As Quebec Liberal Party Leader Dominique Anglade spent Thursday campaigning in Sherbrooke and Gatineau, her Conservative counterpart ric Duhaime was in one of her stronghold ridings in Mont...
Sep 03, 2022

Need a little space? A Hobbit Hole in Vancouver throws open its round doors
VANCOUVER - Sometimes we all need somewhere for a little alone time. Vancouver resident Anne Bruinn found hers in a tiny "Hobbit Hole" that her husband built in their backyard in the neighbourhood of ...
Sep 03, 2022

'First time in 50 years': Native trout returned to alpine lake in Banff National Park
BANFF NATIONAL PARK - A white bucket sits in a creek flowing out of Hidden Lake - a cold alpine lake behind the Lake Louise Ski Resort in Banff National Park. Inside the bucket, which has been turned ...
Sep 03, 2022

N.W.T. changes plans on expanding access second booster of COVID-19 vaccines
YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories government says it's changing its rollout plan for a fourth dose of a COVID-19 vaccine due to limited supply of a vaccine targeting the Omicron variant in Canad...
Sep 02, 2022

Nunavut ministers isolating after premier tests positive for COVID-19 during retreat
NAUJUAAT, NUNAVUT - Nunavut politicians are isolating in Naujaat after the premier tested positive for COVID-19 during a cabinet retreat in the hamlet. Premier P.J. Akeeagok says he got tested for COV...
Sep 02, 2022

Seven people in hospital after Newfoundland refinery explosion, police say
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Police say seven people are in hospital after an explosion at a refinery in Come By Chance, N.L., about 150 kilometres west of St. John's. RCMP Cpl. Jolene Garland said earlier in t...
Sep 02, 2022

Kenney defends Alberta lieutenant-governor, attacks 'cockamamie' sovereignty bill
EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney is defending Alberta's lieutenant-governor after she suggested she may not automatically pass a sovereignty act bill proposed by a candidates vying to replace him as Un...
Sep 02, 2022