Category Archives: Canada

Police believe they have found remains of Calgary woman and her toddler in woods
CALGARY - Police in Calgary say second-degree murder charges are pending against a man after they found the bodies of a woman and toddler who were reported missing nearly two weeks...
May 08, 2019

Caretaker of vacant Victoria hotel still missing, 48 hours after blaze
VICTORIA - Days after flames tore through a vacant hotel in Victoria, one man is still missing and smoke lingers, forcing the closure of city hall and several other businesses. The fire in the former ...
May 08, 2019

Humans' racket a growing threat to East Coast whales, scientists warn
HALIFAX - A human-made racket under the ocean is a growing threat to three types of whales off the East Coast, Canadian scientists say. The Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada rel...
May 08, 2019

Wildlife advocate questions decision to kill pigeons pooping on Saskatoon bridge
SASKATOON - Crews tasked with cleaning a Saskatchewan bridge are in for a dirty job. The City of Saskatoon says that over the last 50 years one of its bridges has accumulated nearly 350...
May 08, 2019

A leak, a probe, a case closed: A timeline of the Mark Norman saga
OTTAWA - The decision Wednesday to stay a breach-of-trust charge against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman has ended his criminal case but his future in the military is unclear. What's happened so fa...
May 08, 2019

Greenhouses gas causing Canadian Arctic seas to acidify quicker: report
Research suggests that greenhouse gases are turning Canada's Arctic waters acidic at a faster rate than anywhere else in the North. The results were presented to the eight countries that ring the Arct...
May 08, 2019

U.S. threatens to pull F-35 from jet competition over industrial requirements
OTTAWA - U.S. officials have threatened to pull the F-35 out of the competition to replace the Royal Canadian Air Force's aging CF-18 fighters over the Liberal government's plan to ask bidders to re-i...
May 08, 2019

Crisis line urgently needed for victims of coerced sterilization: senator
OTTAWA - The federal government should immediately fund a crisis line for victims of coerced and forced sterilizations to ensure traumatized women can get assistance, says Ontario Sen. Yvonne Boyer,&n...
May 08, 2019

'I kind of just snapped:' Murder suspect testifies woman came at him with knife
WINNIPEG - A man accused of killing an Indigenous woman in Manitoba after a night of drinking and sex told a jury Monday that she came at him with a knife and he blacked out. But Crown ...
May 08, 2019

Former Liberal MP Darshan Kang apologizes for behaviour, maintains no ill intent
OTTAWA - A former Liberal MP who was found by his peers to have sexually harassed a member of his office staff is apologizing to the victim for unintentionally causing her difficulty. But reading...
May 08, 2019