Canada is doing more to invest in early childhood education than it was even a few years ago, but programs are spotty from province to province and there is lots of room for improvement. The “Early Years Study 3″ report offers a look at the state of early childhood education…
A man who held nine people hostage at gunpoint at the offices of the Workers’ Compensation Board in Edmonton two years ago will spend just under seven years in jail for his crimes. Justice Sterling Sanderman handed Patrick Clayton an 11-year sentence, time that was cut down by four years…
TORONTO — A Hollywood heavyweight who routinely seeks refuge from the limelight on Canada’s East Coast is calling on the country’s energy industry to abandon its plans to drill for oil in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. The pristine wilderness of Nova Scotia captured Ethan Hawke’s attention 12 years ago…
Police moved into the Occupy Toronto encampment, ready to enforce a day-old eviction order. Officers arrived at St. James Park just before 6 a.m. and began blocking off the roads surrounding the downtown park. “Police are now asking for your co-operation,” one officer told protesters over a loud speaking, warning…
OTTAWA — A new study predicts development of a high-speed rail line between Quebec City and Windsor, Ont., could cost more than $21.3 billion and have little hope of making money. The detailed study — the latest of more than a dozen since 1984 — was conducted by a group…
WASHINGTON — Even though Nebraska is finally on-side with TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL crude pipeline, experts say oil producers who would use the proposed Alberta-to-Texas line should keep their options open. The big oil companies shouldn’t just rely on the planned megaproject as the only way to get the large…
VANCOUVER — A group of six media outlets are challenging court orders requiring them to turn over unpublished photos and video from Vancouver’s Stanley Cup riot, arguing the orders violate their journalistic integrity while putting their reporters at risk. The orders demanded copies of all photographs and video gathered during…
Hamed Mohammad Shafia, who along with his parents is accused of killing his three teenage sisters, told an investigating detective that his mother wasn’t involved in the deaths. Shafia, 20; Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 41; and her husband Mohammad Shafia, 58, have been charged with four counts of first-degree murder. Three…
QUEBEC — Quebec is giving pharmacists more prescription-filling power in an attempt to relieve a bottleneck in doctors’ offices and clinics. Pharmacists would now be allowed to refill prescriptions for minor health problems without making the patients go back to see their doctors. The pharmacists will still not be allowed…
PIPESTONE, Man. — The Manitoba government has moved in on a First Nations smoke shop that has been defying provincial laws on tobacco sales. The Finance Department says almost 90,000 contraband cigarettes have been seized from the Dakota Chundee Smoke Shop near Pipestone. It says the cigarettes are federally stamped…
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