Category Archives: Canada

Mosque founder says Muslims 'need to be patient' as threats scuttle church sale
MONTREAL - When residents north of Montreal learned of a plan to transform a local church into a mosque and Islamic cultural centre, the reaction was so strong that parish leaders invoked the 201...
Nov 02, 2019

Half a million customers in Quebec still without power after Friday's autumn storm
MONTREAL - Roughly 500,000 homes and business in Quebec are still without power following an autumn storm Friday that carried winds up to 100 kilometres per hour and heavy rain across the provinc...
Nov 02, 2019

Daylight time ends Sunday morning when clocks roll back an hour
Most Canadians will be turning their clocks back by an hour this weekend as the country moves off daylight time. But there's a growing push to abandon seasonal time changes and stick to one time ...
Nov 02, 2019

Compliments fresh-cut vegetables recalled due to possible Listeria
OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency say Sobeys Inc. is recalling Compliments brand fresh cut vegetable products due to possible Listeria contamination. The products, which include Sweet Kale ...
Nov 02, 2019

Fraud, corruption trial underway for former SNC-Lavalin executive Sami Bebawi
MONTREAL - Paying bribes to obtain lucrative Libyan construction contracts was once the business model for a division of SNC-Lavalin, prosecutors said Thursday as the fraud and cor...
Nov 02, 2019

Scheer facing new kind of civil war brewing within the Conservative party
OTTAWA - Signs are pointing to a civil war breaking out within the Conservative party, but breaking down along different lines than past internal battles that divided the party ideologically. At ...
Nov 02, 2019

Supreme Court sides with university in case of missing professor's pension
OTTAWA - An Ottawa university can reclaim almost $500,000 in pension payments to a professor who went missing before being found dead in the woods near his home, the Supreme Court of Canada ...
Nov 02, 2019

Working like dogs: Canadian special forces quietly build up canine units
OTTAWA - The only publicly acknowledged hero of the U.S. military operation that took down Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has become an internet sensation after suffering injuries in the undergro...
Nov 02, 2019

Five teens wounded in targeted shooting, Toronto police look for suspects: chief
TORONTO - Five teens were shot Wednesday night in what police are calling a targeted attack in Toronto's west end. Chief Mark Saunders said the shooting happened at about 7:30 p.m. when two peopl...
Nov 01, 2019

B.C. event featuring Meghan Murphy moved to new venue over security concern
VANCOUVER - The organizer of a panel discussion on gender and sexuality says the location of the event in Vancouver has been changed over possible security risks because of the views of a fe...
Nov 01, 2019