Category Archives: Canada

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

Fallen Second World War soldier's medals donated to Calgary Goodwill
CALGARY - A Goodwill store in Calgary is trying to find relatives of a fallen Second World War soldier whose medals found their way into a donation pile. Manager Lorna Schnepf says an employee so...
Nov 01, 2019

Trial of former SNC-Lavalin exec hears how son of Libyan dictator helped company
MONTREAL - The fraud and corruption trial of a former SNC-Lavalin employee heard Friday how the son of the late Libyan dictator, Moammar Gadhafi, helped the Montreal-based engineering firm collec...
Nov 01, 2019

Injured endangered American white pelican faces long road to recovery
BURNABY, B.C. - An American white pelican stood in front of two mirrors in a tiny recovery room on Friday, stretching to reveal a glaring wound and messy feathers on its left wing. The endangered bird...
Nov 01, 2019

Trudeau, Chile's Pinera speak before APEC and climate summits cancelled
OTTAWA - Chile's cancellation of two upcoming summits is a sign of a weakening world order that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his fellow world leaders need to confront, says the head of a Canadian...
Nov 01, 2019