Category Archives: Canada

Fuel spill at Montreal's Trudeau airport as refuelling workers' strike continues
MONTREAL - Aircraft refuelling workers with Swissport Canada remained off the job Saturday as a strike that began earlier in the week continued. The company has been maintaining refuelling s...
Jan 04, 2020

NATO suspends training mission in Iraq citing security
BRUSSELS - NATO says it has suspended a training mission for soldiers in the Iraqi army in the wake of the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani. The military alliance said in a statement Saturd...
Jan 04, 2020

House values drop 11 per cent in Vancouver, stabilize or rise elsewhere in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Housing assessments are in the mail for nearly two million homeowners in British Columbia, but those in Vancouver may have already searched their properties online to learn that values hav...
Jan 04, 2020

CP NewsAlert: Amber Alert cancelled, N.L. boy found safe, father charged
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Police say a 12-year-old boy in western Newfoundland who was the subject of an Amber Alert has been found safe and his father has been arrested. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary ...
Jan 04, 2020

'Open wound:' Talk by poet who worked with Indigenous woman's killer to go ahead
REGINA - The University of Regina is being urged to cancel a lecture by a celebrated Canadian poet who has worked with an Indigenous woman's killer, but the school says doing so would go aga...
Jan 04, 2020

Montreal aircraft refuellers sit down with mediators as strike hits third day
The union representing employees who refuel the planes at two Montreal airports met with mediators Thursday as their strike dragged into its third day. Union representatives sat down with mediato...
Jan 04, 2020

Alberta reports first severe vaping-related lung illness to Public Health Agency
EDMONTON - Alberta has reported its first case of a severe vaping-related lung illness after treating a patient in hospital who was having difficulty breathing. Dr. Deena Hinshaw, Alberta's chief medi...
Jan 04, 2020

Supreme Court eyes brighter future with skylight, grand hall in temporary digs
OTTAWA - They say justice must be seen to be done, and that should become a little easier in the Supreme Court of Canada's temporary new home. A few years from now, visitors to the renovated West...
Jan 04, 2020

Daughter hopes social media can lead to answers in mother's killing 39 years ago
WINNIPEG - Denise Pochinko remembers waking up and hearing the screams. She hid under blankets with her sister until sirens drowned out their panicked breathing. It was October 1980 in Winnipeg and sh...
Jan 04, 2020

Iranian-Canadians dance, cheer and celebrate death of top general in Iran
TORONTO - Several dozen Iranian-Canadians danced and cheered in Toronto on Friday as they celebrated the death of a top general in their home country. An American airstrike authorized by U.S...
Jan 03, 2020