Category Archives: Canada
Man charged with child pornography over sex doll says he bought it to replace son
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A man facing child pornography charges for ordering a child-sized sex doll repeatedly told a St. John’s courtroom Monday that his only motivation was to replace his infa...
May 06, 2019
In the news today, May 6
Three stories in the news for Monday, May 6 --- FEDERAL BYELECTION DAY NANAIMO, B.C. Voters are heading to the polls today to elect a member of Parliament in the B.C. riding of Nanaimo-Ladysmith in wh...
May 06, 2019
Retailers struggle to keep popular cannabis extract CBD on shelves in Canada
VANCOUVER - Retailers across Canada are struggling with a shortage of all cannabis, but there’s one product they’re especially desperate to keep on shelves: cannabidiol or CBD, a non-intox...
May 06, 2019
Green Party's Paul Manly wins Nanaimo-Ladysmith
NANAIMO, B.C. - Voters in Nanaimo, B.C., elected the Green Party’s Paul Manly as their new member of Parliament, barely six months before October’s federal election. With about 93 per cent...
May 06, 2019
Montreal protesters form human chain to protest Quebec's secularism bill
MONTREAL - Several hundred people formed a human chain around the Montreal courthouse today to protest the Quebec government’s secularism bill. The protest brought together a coalition of citize...
May 05, 2019
Andrew Leslie says lawyers instructed him not to comment on Mark Norman case
OTTAWA - Outgoing Liberal MP Andrew Leslie says lawyers have instructed him not to comment on reports he may be called as a defence witness in suspended Vice-Admiral Mark Norman’s upcoming crimi...
May 05, 2019
Officials have yet to identify cause of deadly fire on Ontario First Nation
KITCHENUHMAYKOOSIB INNINUWUG, Ont. - The cause of a house fire that killed a mother and four of her young children on a northern Ontario First Nation had yet to be determined Sunday as officials worke...
May 05, 2019
Ottawa worried about fallout from jailing of farmer in Beirut, documents show
FREDERICTON - Documents filed with the Federal Court show the former Harper government was concerned about the legal and political fallout from how it dealt with a New Brunswick potato farmer jailed f...
May 05, 2019
Pilot, two passengers killed, one survived in small plane crash in B.C.: Coroner
SMITHERS, B.C. - The British Columbia coroner says it is investigating three fatalities after a small plane crashed northeast of Smithers. Andy Watson, the spokesman for the BC Coroners Service, says ...
May 05, 2019
Canadians remember Second World War's long, dark Battle of the Atlantic
OTTAWA - Canadians across the country marked one of the longest, darkest and most pivotal chapters of this country’s involvement in the Second World War on Sunday: The Battle of the Atlantic. La...
May 05, 2019