Category Archives: Canada

Crowds gather as massive Pride parade set to take over downtown Toronto
Toronto's gay village is buzzing this afternoon just ahead of the start of the city's massive Pride parade, with crowds wearing all colours and waving rainbow flags lining the downtown parad...
Jun 23, 2019

Renata Ford, widow of Rob Ford, runs to be MP for Bernier's 'People's party'
Toronto voters will have a chance this fall to vote for another Ford. Renata Ford - the widow of former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, sister-in-law to Ontario's premier, daughter-in-law to a former Ont...
Jun 23, 2019

Iraqi Kurds ask Canada for military training, equipment after being frozen out
OTTAWA - A senior representative for Iraq's Kurdistan region is inviting Canada to once again provide training and equipment to Kurdish security forces, who worked shoulder-to-shoulder with Canadian s...
Jun 23, 2019

Artists, politicians reflect on reconciliation as cedar poles unveiled in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Musqueam artist William Dan says a welcome figure he carved from centuries-old cedar represents a homecoming for him, after a childhood lost to residential school and decades spent aw...
Jun 23, 2019

Danforth shooter had long history of violent thoughts, motive unclear:police
TORONTO - A man who went on a shooting rampage in Toronto's Greektown last summer had a fascination with death and violence, a long history of mental-health issues and re...
Jun 23, 2019

"Other people's skin:" Inuit sue government over medical experiments
Five Inuit have filed a lawsuit against the federal government over medical experiments, including skin grafts, that they say were performed on them without their consent. A statement of claim fi...
Jun 23, 2019

Canada and U.S. agree to expand preclearance options for travellers, goods
OTTAWA - A new agreement between Canada and the United States will soon allow travellers and cargo to pre-clear customs before they leave, allowing an easier movement of people and goods crossing...
Jun 23, 2019

PBO sets budget baseline for campaign vows with tools, deficit projections
OTTAWA - Parliament's spending watchdog is predicting years of deficits deeper than the government has laid out. The numbers are in a report the parliamentary budget office says sh...
Jun 23, 2019

Stepmother of Quebec girl who died in April now faces second-degree murder charge
GRANBY, Que. - The stepmother of a seven-year-old Quebec girl who died under troubling circumstances last April was charged Friday with second-degree murder. The charge against the woman, 36,&nbs...
Jun 23, 2019

Bill that would have improved mental support for jurors dies in Senate
TORONTO - A prominent juror advocate says he's frustrated and angry after a private member's bill aimed at improving mental-health support for traumatized jury members died in the Senate. Ma...
Jun 23, 2019