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Ethics czar warns Liberal-named CEO of investment body over conflict of interest
OTTAWA - Canada's ethics czar is ordering the head of a federal investment-promotion agency - and former national director of the Liberal Party of Canada - to resign from...
Jan 25, 2019
Murder trial hears Richard Oland's steamy text exchanges with mistress
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The cellphone of murdered multimillionaire Richard Oland was never found, but steamy messages and text exchanges with his mistress were captured on a computer backup program. "I nee...
Jan 25, 2019
In the news today, Jan. 23
Six stories in the news for Wednesday, Jan. 23 --- TRUDEAU MAKING FREQUENT STOPS IN SASKATCHEWAN Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to visit Saskatchewan for a seventh time in the last yea...
Jan 25, 2019
In the news today, Jan. 25
Four stories in the news for Friday, Jan. 25 --- MOUNTIES TO GIVE UPDATE ON KINGSTON, ONT., ARRESTS RCMP are expected to give an update today on a national security investigation that s...
Jan 25, 2019
'Who is the shooter?' Closing arguments in case of slain football player
CALGARY - The lawyer for a man accused in the fatal shooting of a professional football player says the case highlights the dangers of eyewitness testimony. Nelson Lugela, 21, is charged with sec...
Jan 25, 2019
Ottawa to fund programs, mental health services at La Loche high school: Trudeau
LA LOCHE, Sask. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited a remote northern Saskatchewan community Wednesday to announce $2.2 million to help people heal from a deadly school shooting. It...
Jan 25, 2019
Indian Act to blame for pipeline gridlock in northern B.C.: federal minister
VANCOUVER - Canada's minister of Crown-Indigenous relations is pointing her finger at the Indian Act for creating a gridlock in northern British Columbia where some hereditary clan chiefs say a l...
Jan 25, 2019
Under construction: Broncos family focused on rebuilding, not sentencing hearing
AIRDRIE, Alta. - The family of injured Humboldt Broncos player Ryan Straschnitzki is focusing its attention closer to home ahead of next week's sentencing hearing for the truc...
Jan 25, 2019
U.S. tariffs on Canada, Mexico need to come off, manufacturers plead
WASHINGTON - American automakers, aluminum producers, manufacturers and farmers are running out of time, money and patience as the North American tariff standoff persists, and they...
Jan 25, 2019
Pride Toronto members vote to keep uniformed police officers out of parade
TORONTO - Uniformed police officers have been indefinitely barred from participating in Toronto's Pride Parade after a close vote that Pride Toronto said showed a deep division within the city's LGBTQ...
Jan 25, 2019
