Category Archives: Canada
Suspect charged after years of investigating Calgary musician's death
CALGARY - Police have charged a man after three homicide investigations over 16 years into the death of an amateur musician who was allegedly targeted for financial reasons. Paul Hepher, a 50-year-old...
Apr 18, 2017
Indian leader accuses Canadian defence minister of being Sikh nationalist
OTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan’s visit to his native India this week has run into controversy after one of the country’s political leaders accused him of being a Sikh nationalist....
Apr 18, 2017
On Cloud 9: University of Alberta students watch satellite blast into space
Some students from the University of Alberta are in emotional orbit after watching a tiny satellite they built launch into space on a giant NASA rocket. Charles Nokes, a space physics student, cried a...
Apr 18, 2017
Subway files defamation suit against CBC over reports
TORONTO - Subway has filed a defamation lawsuit against the CBC over reports the sandwich chain alleges have caused it to suffer significant sales losses. In a statement of claim filed with a Toronto ...
Apr 18, 2017
Teen pleads guilty in Quebec school plot and will remain detained
SAINT-HYACINTHE, Que. - One of two Quebec teens charged in an alleged plot to kill fellow classmates pleaded guilty Tuesday. The 14-year-old will remain detained pending sentencing arguments set for M...
Apr 18, 2017
Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault: 'amazing' how far we have come on LGBTQ2 rights
OTTAWA - Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault said his time at the University of Oxford taught him the importance of staying on top of a busy schedule. There as a Rhodes Scholar studying philosophy, politics...
Apr 18, 2017
Slow-learning bees as successful as smart ones, and live longer: Study
Slow-learning bumblebees are just as successful as smart ones and live longer, suggests a new study that researchers say calls into question the assumption that brain superiority is better in the bele...
Apr 18, 2017
Canadian envoy fires back at Trump over dairy, says criticism not based on facts
OTTAWA - Canada’s envoy to Washington has shot back at criticism by President Donald Trump and U.S. milk producers, saying the facts don’t support a charge that the Canadian dairy industry...
Apr 18, 2017
Trial hears woman's body buried in home mummified in mixture of cat litter, salt
CALGARY - The Crown says a man accused of killing his wife confessed to undercover officers that he strangled her and buried her body in the basement of the home they shared with their two children. T...
Apr 18, 2017
Not guilty pleas entered for two accused men in B.C. polygamy trial
CRANBROOK, B.C. - The leader of a fundamentalist sect that condones plural marriage stood silently in a British Columbia courtroom Tuesday, hands clasped in front of a pressed black suit, as a B.C. Su...
Apr 18, 2017