The Canadian PressStephanie Levitz OTTAWA–An international review of Canada’s economic immigration system suggests the country is doing well when it comes to how it selects and welcomes foreign workers. But the report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development suggests that some tweaks would be helpful to ensure the […]
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The Canadian Press OTTAWA — Transport Canada is issuing fines to a pair of Canadian Coast Guard ships that allegedly sailed too fast through the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where the rising death toll among endangered North Atlantic right whales has been partly blamed on collisions with vessels. The ships […]
The Canadian PressAllison Jones KITCHENER, Ont.–Ontario’s premier said Friday that people with mental illness who commit crimes should be in jail, calling a patient who had been detained at a mental health hospital for killing his roommate an “animal.” Doug Ford teed off for a second time on the case […]
The Canadian Press The sister of an American tourist says the father of one of the British Columbia men named as a suspect in the woman’s death isn’t accepting his share of responsibility for her family’s sorrow. Kennedy Deese, whose sister Chynna Deese was found dead along with her Australian […]
The Canadian PressAmy Smart VANCOUVER–A Canadian man who spent eight months in Syrian prisons said he wept three times on his flight back because he was so excited to finally be coming home. Kristian Baxter of Nanaimo, B.C., returned to Vancouver on Saturday, just days after he was released from […]
By Sarah El Deeb The Associated Press BEIRUT — A Canadian citizen held in Syrian prisons since last year and freed after Lebanese mediation said Friday he had no idea if anyone knew he was still alive. Kristian Lee Baxter appeared emotional and at times jittery at a press conference […]
The Canadian Press PICTON, Ont.–Ontario Provincial Police are warning the public of an “emergency” scam that cost a mother from Picton, Ont., $6,000. Police say the woman recently received a frantic phone call from a man claiming to be her son. The man told her he was in jail after […]
The Canadian PressKelly Geraldine Malone WINNIPEG–A massive manhunt is over after two bodies believed to be British Columbia murder suspects were found in dense brush in northern Manitoba. RCMP assistant commissioner Jane MacLatchy said the bodies were discovered yesterday morning near the shoreline of the Nelson River, within a kilometre […]
The Canadian PressMia Rabson Ottawa is going around the Manitoba government in order to give $5.4 million in carbon tax revenues to the province’s schools in the latest carbon-tax battle between the federal Liberals and a provincial Conservative government. Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister last month refused to play ball and […]
The Canadian PressEmerald Bensadoun Fifteen people from across Ontario face a combined 195 charges after an investigation into an alleged drug trafficking network involving members and associates of motorcycle gangs, provincial police said yesterday. The operation targeted the Hells Angels Nomads, the Red Devils, and the Hooligans motorcycle clubs and […]
The Canadian Press TILLSONBURG, Ont.–Provincial police are reminding the public about the proper use of 911 after officers were called to remove a bat from a home in Tillsonburg, Ont. OPP say a homeowner in the community called 911 to report a bird flying around in their home as they […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO–A British Columbia man accused of swimming naked in a shark tank at a Toronto aquarium is expected to plead guilty to mischief in that incident next month. David Weaver, of Nelson, B.C., was arrested and charged in October of last year, four days after the alleged […]
