| Canadians should watch closely as Scotland's separatist campaign ramps up Posted: 09 Feb 2014 08:52 AM PST  A little over seven months from now, the people of Scotland will vote on whether or not to separate from the United Kingdom and become an independent country. A lot of Canadians with British and especially Scottish roots will be … Continue reading →
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| Teen girls with mental health issues have higher risk of pregnancy: study Posted: 09 Feb 2014 09:00 PM PST  TORONTO - Adolescent girls with a major mental health disorder are three times more likely to get pregnant than those without a mental illness, say researchers, underscoring the need for specialized prevention programs for this vulnerable group of teens. In a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics, the researchers examined live birth rates in Ontario from 1999 to 2009 in 4.5 million girls aged 15 to 19, with and without a major mental health illness. The study found pregnancy rates among girls with bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or major depression were not only three times higher, but they also have been declining at a far slower pace than those for adolescent females without a mental health diagnosis. Although birth rates for both groups of teen girls dropped over time, the gap between them appeared to be widening slightly during the 10-year study period.
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| Vancouver taxi dispute ends in stabbing Posted: 09 Feb 2014 08:42 PM PST Vancouver police say two men are in hospital with serious stab wounds and one man is in jail after a dispute over who had the right to take an available taxi.  |
| Unsurprising silver for Canada in the figure-skating team event Posted: 09 Feb 2014 10:07 AM PST  Most of the suspense was long over when the final routines of the inaugural team event in ice dance were skated Sunday night. Host Russia would win the gold regardless and Canada the silver – its second silver medal of … Continue reading →
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| Federal budget to boost rural high-speed internet access Posted: 09 Feb 2014 04:44 AM PST  Tuesday's federal budget will include money to extend or improve high-speed internet access to 280,000 households and businesses in rural and remote areas, CBC News has learned.
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| Liberal convention lookahead: Will Trudeau offer up some meaty policy talk? Posted: 09 Feb 2014 12:06 PM PST  There's a belief out there that Justin Trudeau has been selling the sizzle and not the steak. Since even before he became Liberal leader, his opponents have chided him for not really presenting any policy ideas; for being slim on … Continue reading →
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| Dancing doctor to face terror charge more than three years after arrest Posted: 09 Feb 2014 01:45 PM PST  Khurram Syed Sher, a doctor of pathology from London, Ont., is to be tried by judge alone in an Ottawa courtroom starting Monday. Police claimed the alleged plot stretched from Ottawa to Afghanistan, Dubai, Iran and Pakistan. The McGill University graduate, who has been free on bail, worked as an anatomical pathologist at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital in St. Thomas, Ont., south of London. At least some of that information came from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the London Metropolitan Police in Britain, says an affidavit filed by the RCMP in the Federal Court of Canada.
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| Sick leave policy for public servants outdated: Treasury Board President Posted: 08 Feb 2014 05:16 PM PST  HALIFAX - Treasury Board Minister Tony Clement says changes he has in mind for changing sick leave policy for public servants would tackle shortcomings with the outdated current setup such as addressing long term health issues like mental illness. Clement said he's proposing a format that would include five to seven sick days a year, a short term disability leave of a week to six months and long term leave for more than six months. The changes would also eliminate bankable sick days, he said. Speaking at a provincial Progressive Conservative conference in Nova Scotia, Clement said the proposed changes are fair and would do more to address things like mental illness than the current system does.
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| Mba Attorney General slams Ottawa for cutting 45-year-old band constable program Posted: 09 Feb 2014 02:55 PM PST  WINNIPEG - Manitoba is slamming Ottawa for cutting front-line policing on dozens of the province's reserves, calling it part of a federal "line of attack" on First Nation communities. Attorney General Andrew Swan told a gathering of the governing New Democrats that he just learned of the cuts to the band constable program in January. The 45-year-old program that allows First Nations to police their own communities in partnership with the RCMP will be terminated in just over a year, Swan said. "This is a continuing line of attacks on aboriginal people by the federal government," he told a convention of the provincial NDP in Winnipeg on Sunday.
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| Dufour-Lapointe sisters support each other Posted: 09 Feb 2014 05:56 AM PST  Even after their medal successes, Maxime, Chloe and Justine Dufour-Lapointe put the emphasis on family.
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| Cuba frees jailed Canadian businessman after serving 2 1/2 years of 9-year sentence Posted: 08 Feb 2014 11:09 AM PST  TORONTO - A Canadian businessman who served 2 1/2 years of a 9-year prison sentence in Cuba for corruption has abruptly returned to Canada.
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| Canadian kids can navigate a tablet before they can tie their laces: report Posted: 09 Feb 2014 05:00 AM PST  TORONTO - A global study of how young kids are using the Internet found Canadians were spending less time online and were less likely to have their own email address or social media account. The online survey of 6,017 parents in Canada, Australia, Brazil, Czech Republic, France, Germany, New Zealand, Spain, the U.K. and U.S. was conducted during November and December.
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| Canadian survives gunshots after defending school group in Dominican Republic Posted: 09 Feb 2014 08:22 PM PST  WINNIPEG - Family members of a Canadian who was shot multiple times while defending a group of Manitoba school students in the Dominican Republic are revealing details of what happened during the frightening robbery. The family says that Les Lehmann, who lives in the Dominican Republic and manages an apartment complex, suffered nine bullet wounds and was stomped by the armed intruders during the incident late last month. It says Lehmann found a baseball bat and pursued them, and then hit them several times with the bat before the robbers opened fire. "Les is surprised to hear people calling him a hero — it was his natural reaction — a reflex to the threat that the humanitarian group might have be harmed," the family says on the website.
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