More than 150 dogs and their handlers descended upon Kingston for the city’s annual Agility Association of Canada Dog Trials. The trials happen every Canada Day long weekend in Lake Ontario Park and attract people from all across the province and Quebec, says Christine Mandy, event organizer and member of the Kingston group called The […]
An Edmonton-area family is encouraging more people of Aboriginal descent to become stem cell donors, as they approach the five year anniversary of their son’s successful transplant. Drayson Rucchin, now 11, was born with a rare blood disorder called fanconi anemia, and there were worries it would eventually lead to leukemia. Rucchin is of Aboriginal […]
OTTAWA — The Senate’s ethics officer says ex-senator Don Meredith created a poisoned work environment by harassing a half-dozen employees, plus a constable in the upper chamber’s protection service. In a report released Friday, Pierre Legault says Meredith bullied, threatened and intimidated his own staff and repeatedly touched, kissed and propositioned some of them. The […]
The Nature Conservancy of Canada is warning long-weekend campers in the Maritimes to beware of an invasive, tree-killing beetle. A spokesman for the group says the emerald ash borer is an invasive species first discovered in Canada in 2002, but in the past 18 months has made its way to the Maritimes. Andrew Holland says […]
LOS ANGELES — A federal judge has ordered a mediator to move swiftly to improve health and sanitation at Border Patrol facilities in Texas, where observers reported migrant children were subject to filthy conditions that imperiled their health. Judge Dolly M. Gee of the Central District of California asked late on Friday that an independent […]
Manitoba RCMP and the Steinbach Fire Department responded to a small helicopter crash at an airport in Steinbach, Man., on Saturday. Just before 8:30 a.m., crews were called to the scene of the crash. Two occupants were able to escape the aircraft, and there were no injuries reported, fire officials said. Crews were able to […]
The ranking U.S. diplomat on drug enforcement policy is to visit Ottawa in July to kick-start a fresh round of co-operation between the two countries on tackling the opioid crisis. That includes a renewed focus on stemming the flow of fentanyl into the two countries from China, The Canadian Press has learned. The visit of […]
A ship carrying an infamous load of Canadian trash that had been rotting in the Philippines since as far back as 2013 has arrived at a port south of Vancouver. The Anna Maersk, carrying 69 containers of Canadian garbage and e-waste, docked at Deltaport near the Tsawwassen ferry terminal just after 7 a.m. on Saturday. […]
Investigators uncovered the plan and arrested the three men in January after a student reported a suspicious comment. Three young men accused of plotting to attack a Muslim community in upstate New York with homemade explosives have pleaded guilty. The three men and a 16-year-old high school student from the Rochester area were arrested in […]
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering a 23-year-old sugar baby who disappeared earlier this month and burning her body. The remains of Mackenzie Lueck, 23, were dug up in the backyard of suspect Ayoola Ajayi, 31, on Friday in Utah. Police have accused veteran Ajayi of killing the woman and burning her […]