Category Archives: Canada

'Utterly fearless:' Greta Thunberg visits glacier in Jasper National Park
JASPER, Alta. - Climate change activist Greta Thunberg braved a blizzard on a snow-covered glacier in Jasper National Park this week to learn from the scientists who study the ice. In a tweet to ...
Oct 26, 2019

Jury deliberating at trial for suspect in Edmonton police officer stabbing
EDMONTON - Jurors are deliberating in the trial for a man accused of stabbing a police officer and striking four pedestrians with a van. Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, 32, has pleaded not guilty to 11 ch...
Oct 26, 2019

Legal aid won't take on Quebec man seeking to withdraw guilty plea for killing unborn child
MONTREAL - A Quebec man seeking to withdraw his guilty pleas in the killing of his unborn child and the stabbing of his ex-wife won't be represented by legal aid in the case. Sofiane Ghazi suddenly pl...
Oct 26, 2019

N.B. Appeal Court orders new murder trial for woman convicted in stabbing death
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for a young woman convicted in the brutal slaying of a Moncton teen who was stabbed about 200 times, concluding that a judge's err...
Oct 26, 2019

Police called after Catherine McKenna's office vandalized with vulgar slur
OTTAWA - Newly re-elected Liberal MP Catherine McKenna says she has notified police after someone spray-painted a vulgar slur on the front of her Ottawa Centre campaign office. Staff arriving at the o...
Oct 26, 2019

Former N.S. police chief found guilty of sexually exploiting teen
BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - A former police chief in Nova Scotia who was described in court as a "father figure" to a 17-year-old girl with mental health issues was convicted Thursday of sexually exploiting t...
Oct 26, 2019

Alberta UCP government tables budget with cuts to civil servants, universities
EDMONTON - Alberta is blazing a new trail for its red-ink economy with a budget that preserves health and education funding but takes a big stick to cities, civil servants and universities. ...
Oct 26, 2019

Liberals: TMX pipeline could fund $500 million a year in clean energy projects
OTTAWA - The Liberal government expects to get $500 million a year out of the expanded Trans Mountain pipeline and is promising to spend it all on cleaner sources of energy and projects that...
Oct 26, 2019

Life after losing: electoral defeat brings whole new set of challenges
OTTAWA - Brian Murphy barely had time to process losing his seat in the 2011 federal election before the House of Commons wrote to ask if he wanted it back. There was a catch,...
Oct 26, 2019

The family tree for the tree of life and feral cats; In-The-News for Oct. 24
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 Oct. 24. What we are watching i...
Oct 26, 2019