Category Archives: Canada

Desmond inquiry judge says Veterans Affairs did not share key information
GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - The judge overseeing an inquiry into a triple-murder and suicide carried out by an Afghanistan war veteran says Lionel Desmond faced a large gap in treatment for a s...
Feb 15, 2020

Canadian research officials return from Geneva with plan to tackle coronavirus
OTTAWA - Canada will aim $6.5 million at research on stopping the spread of the novel coronavirus, after co-ordinating with researchers around the world on tackling the outbreak. Representatives of&nb...
Feb 15, 2020

Iranian minister to appear at Canadian hosted meeting of Tehran crash victims
MUNICH - Iran's foreign minister is to make a brief appearance today at a meeting hosted in Germany by Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne with counterparts from countries that l...
Feb 15, 2020

Number of new coronavirus cases spike in China; In The News for Feb. 13
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 13 ... What...
Feb 15, 2020

Supreme Court won't hear appeals of couple convicted in diabetic son's death
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear the appeal of a couple found guilty of killing their diabetic teenage son. Emil and Rodica Radita of Calgary were convicted in 2017 of...
Feb 15, 2020

Industry, passengers left stranded as anti-pipeline blockades shut rail service
Blockades set up by anti-pipeline protesters have forced Canadian National Railway Co. to shut down its entire network in Eastern Canada and Via Rail to cancel passenger service across the country. CN...
Feb 15, 2020

Lionel Desmond's wife asked him for a divorce before killings, inquiry told
GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - The same day Lionel Desmond told a psychotherapist that his wife had recently asked for a divorce, the former soldier fatally shot his spouse, their 10-year-old daug...
Feb 14, 2020

AFN, Opposition demand Trudeau Liberals act on B.C. pipeline dispute
OTTAWA - The Assembly of First Nations and Opposition politicians called Wednesday for the Liberal government to take swifter and firmer action to defuse tensions around a natural-gas pipeline being b...
Feb 14, 2020

A timeline on rail disruptions by anti-pipeline protesters across Canada
RCMP began enforcing an injunction last week that prevents interference with construction of a $6.6-billion natural gas pipeline in northern British Columbia. Here is a timeline of the dispute, along ...
Feb 14, 2020

A list of major civil disobedience events in recent Canadian history
VANCOUVER - Protesters around the country have blocked rail lines and used other forms of civil disobedience to show support for the hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en First Nation and th...
Feb 14, 2020