By Cassandra Szklarski The Canadian Press TORONTO — Sonia Racco was about to start trying for her second child when she was dealt a surprise blow: breast cancer. The 36-year-old had no family history of the disease and hadn’t even thought much about her breasts until she found a lump […]
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The Associated Press HARTLAND, Mich.—A mother duck has grown attached to a Michigan elementary school’s courtyard. She returns each year to lay her eggs and then walks the hallways with her ducklings, with the help of students and staff, to safely get to a nearby pond. The duck named “Vanessa” […]
The Canadian PressStephanie Levitz OTTAWA—People with serious criminal records and others using potentially phoney addresses are among those who managed to secure Canadian citizenship, thanks to a system that doesn’t do enough to root out fraud, the auditor general has found. Michael Ferguson’s audit of citizenship applications between July, 2014 […]
The Associated PressMichelle R. Smith PROVIDENCE, R.I.—An elephant carrying a performer holding an American flag kicked off the final elephant performance at Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus yesterday as the show closes its own chapter on a practice that has entertained audiences in America for two centuries but […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO—George John Dryden, who spent years of his life trying to prove conclusively he was the love child of former Canadian prime minister John George Diefenbaker, died yesterday, a longtime friend said. Dryden, 47, who had terminal pancreatic disease, suffered fatal injuries in a suicide attempt, Merry-Ellen […]
The Canadian Press MAYERTHORPE, Alta.—A firefighter who battled the flames that destroyed a railway trestle bridge northwest of Edmonton last week now has been charged with setting the fire, as well as others in and around his community. RCMP said Lawson Michael Schalm, 19, of Mayerthorpe faces 18 counts of […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA—Call it the start of the government’s biggest big data push. Today marks the start of mailings from Statistics Canada of census surveys, including the return of the mandatory, long-form questionnaire that was replaced with a voluntary survey five years ago. Statistics Canada noted more than 15 […]
By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press CHICAGO — Playground concussions are on the rise, according to a new government study, and monkey bars and swings are most often involved. Most injuries studied were mild, but all concussions are potentially serious and the researchers say the trend raises public health and […]
The Canadian PressAlexander Panetta WASHINGTON—Alberta’s new premier began her campaign to rehabilitate the reputation of her province’s oilsands in the United States, where it was battered by the debate over the Keystone XL pipeline. Rachel Notley walked a Washington audience through the climate-change measures taken by her new NDP government. […]
The Canadian Press MONTREAL—Quebec beekeeper Jean-Marc Labonte said yesterday that he’s in a sticky situation after thieves buzzed off with about five million of his bees. He said he noticed Wednesday that 180 hives were stolen from a field near Victoriaville, Que., about 150 km northeast of Montreal. The bees […]
The Canadian Press SHOAL LAKE, Ont.—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hauled large jugs of drinking water and spoke with school children yesterday as he was immersed in the daily struggles of an isolated reserve that has been under a boil advisory for 19 years. Trudeau spent seven hours on Shoal Lake […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA—Canada lacks a full picture of the issues related to bail, says a recent note drafted to brief Justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould on the state of the criminal justice system. The document, obtained by The Canadian Press, suggested half of those in provincial jails are on remand […]
