Category Archives: Canada

Security-clearance backlogs bedevilled RCMP as employee allegedly leaked secrets
OTTAWA - The RCMP was struggling to keep staff security clearances up to date during the time a senior employee allegedly tried to pass secrets to adversaries, an internal Mountie audit...
Sep 29, 2019

Calgary man convicted in five-year-old grandson's death sentenced to 9 years
CALGARY - A judge who sentenced a man Friday to nine years in prison for killing his young grandson said the injuries he inflicted upon the five-year-old boy were appalling. Allan ...
Sep 29, 2019

Canadian youth gather en masse across Canada to demand drastic climate action
OTTAWA - Greta Thunberg, the 16-year-old Swedish activist whose global crusade compelled Canadians to flood the streets Friday as part of a global protest, says claims to climate leadership in bo...
Sep 29, 2019

Suspects confessed to B.C. murders in videos but showed no remorse: RCMP
SURREY, B.C. - Two suspects confessed to the murders of three people in northern British Columbia in several videos taken before they shot themselves in a suicide pact, the RCMP said Friday....
Sep 29, 2019

Trudeau to reveal bulk of Liberal campaign platform Sunday in Ontario
OTTAWA - Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau will have the campaign stage mostly to himself today as he reveals the bulk of his party's re-election platform. He has a mid-day event scheduled at the Universi...
Sep 29, 2019

Medical examiner at centre of racial complaint against Alberta judge overwhelmed
CALGARY - A medical examiner who testified at the trial of an Alberta couple who were charged in their child's death says he is overwhelmed that legal and health professionals have filed a compla...
Sep 28, 2019

Five meals a week: Scientists audit garbage to assess household food waste
Scientists spent weeks up to their elbows in coffee grounds and banana peels to come up with what they say is the most accurate measure yet of how much food is wasted in Canadian kitchens. "...
Sep 28, 2019

Fredette's lawyer urges jury to opt for manslaughter in double murder case
SAINT-JEROME, Que. - A Quebec man accused of the murder of two people, including his ex-wife, snapped the day of the killings but didn't intend to kill anyone, his lawyer told a jury on Thur...
Sep 28, 2019

Indigenous water activist Autumn Peltier speaks at UN sustainability forum
NEW YORK - Indigenous water activist Autumn Peltier addressed hundreds of international guests at UN headquarters in Manhattan Saturday. The 15-year-old activist from Wiikwemkoong First Nation on...
Sep 28, 2019

Supreme Court sides with Ontario in dispute over property-survey copyright
OTTAWA - A Supreme Court of Canada decision has put the brakes on a long-planned class-action suit over the rights to property surveys in Ontario. Keatley Surveying Ltd. brought the act...
Sep 28, 2019