Author Archives: Syndicated Content
Animal welfare advocates ask court to stop white-tailed deer cull south of Montreal
MONTREAL - A well-known Quebec lawyer is going before the Superior Court to prevent the cull of white-tailed deer living in a forest on Montreal’s South Shore. Lawyer Anne-France Goldwater, who ...
May 18, 2022
Wind knocks out power, weather warnings issued for southern B.C.
VANCOUVER - Strong winds from an unseasonable storm have knocked out power to thousands on Vancouver Island, the Sunshine Coast and Lower Mainland. Environment Canada posted wind warnings on Wednesday...
May 18, 2022
Tory finance critic says Poilievre’s bid to fire Macklem hurts party’s economic cred
OTTAWA - Conservative finance critic Ed Fast says he believes Pierre Poilievre’s pitch to fire the Bank of Canada governor over the country’s record-high inflation rate hurts the party's c...
May 18, 2022
DHS pauses disinformation board, director will resign
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Department of Homeland Security paused its new disinformation governance board Wednesday and its board’s director will resign, following weeks of criticism from Republicans...
May 18, 2022
Chantel Moore shot by N.B. police officer in chest, abdomen and leg, inquest hears
FREDERICTON - The pathologist who conducted an autopsy on Chantel Moore says the 26-year-old Indigenous woman was shot twice in the chest, once in the abdomen and once in her left leg. Moore was kille...
May 18, 2022
Russia shuts down CBC/Radio-Canada Moscow bureau, removes journalist accreditations
Russia’s Foreign Ministry says it is shutting down CBC/Radio-Canada’s Moscow bureau and revoking the accreditations and visas of its journalists. Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharo...
May 18, 2022
Unmarked graves finding triggered Canada’s year of reckoning over residential schools
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Percy Casper, 73, spent 10 years as a child at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia. He has spent the past year grieving. A member of the Bonaparte Indian...
May 18, 2022
RCMP incident commander says radio service a challenge during N.S. mass shooting
HALIFAX - A retired RCMP officer who led much of the response to the 2020 mass shooting in Nova Scotia testified today that spotty radio service posed challenges as Mounties chased a murderous suspect...
May 18, 2022
Kansas Supreme Court upholds Republican congressional map
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas' highest court on Wednesday upheld a Republican redistricting law that makes it harder for the only Democrat in the state's congressional delegation to win reelection in a b...
May 18, 2022
Day 3 of jury deliberations in Quebec City Halloween 2020 murder trial
QUEBEC - The 11 jurors considering the fate of the accused in Quebec City’s Halloween 2020 sword attack that left two people dead and five others injured are deliberating for a third day. Carl G...
May 18, 2022