Defrocked priest Eric Dejaeger, found guilty of sexually abusing children in northern Canada, has been sentenced to 19 years in prison. Given the time he has already served behind bars, 11 years are left in the sentence. Dejaeger was found… »
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Pope invited to Montreal for 375th anniversary in 2017
Pope Francis was invited to Montreal for the city’s 375th anniversary in 2017. Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre met the Pope today at the Vatican, and extended the invitation. Catholic connections Mayor Coderre, in a two-and-a-half-page letter, emphasized Montreal’s Catholic history, a… »
Arts & Entertainment, Highlights, Society, Sports
Tournament to celebrate the birthplace of hockey
This weekend Windsor Nova Scotia will hold its fourth annual Long Pond Classic hockey tournament, as the birthplace of hockey. It’s sure to elicit loud arguments, but Windsor Nova Scotia claims the title as the place where hockey was born… »
Arts & Entertainment, Environment & Animal Life
Photos prove frozen Canada can be beautiful
Frozen bubbles trapped beneath the surface of a lake in western Canada were captured by Canadian landscape photographer Paul Zizka and recently published in the UK’s Guardian newspaper. Paul Zizka had skated more than 20 kilometres when he came a… »
February 4, 1880: murder, vigilantes, burnings, secrecy, ghosts
Like something out of an American wild west movie, on February 4th, 1880 in the province of Ontario, violence of the worst kind occurred in the dark shadows of night. James Donnelly, his wife, a son and a niece were… »
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Sudden resignation of Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird
“I will miss this place very much and many of the people in it, on all sides, but the time has come for me to start a new chapter in my life,” said Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird as… »
International, Politics, Society
Beware of secret police, Snowden tells students
Canadians and other citizens of the world need to be “extraordinarily cautious” when their governments propose restrictive laws to fight an increased threat of terrorism, said Edward Snowden to Toronto high school students. The former U.S. intelligence contractor turned whistleblower… »
Psst, wanna buy a bridge?
Well yes you can! The old Borden bridge near Saskatoon Saskatchewan was built in 1936 primarily as a make-work project to employ locals in the area. In 1985, it was closed as a new dual-span bridge was built nearby across… »
Health officials inquire into measles in Toronto
Canada eliminated measles in the late 1990s, so health officials are investigating how four unrelated cases of the disease cropped up in the country’s largest city, Toronto. The virus does not spread in Canada on a continuous basis but there… »
Special honour today, for a special WWII force
It was the known officially as the First Special Service Force, a unit of combined Canadian and American soldiers. It was a secret commando regiment gathering the elite of both armies and training them even further in specialized and deadly warfare… »
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