At least four people have been killed, and several injured, in an attack on the Quebec City Islamic Cultural Center in the eastern Canadian city of Quebec, local media reported. La Presse newspaper said in its digital edition that at around 9:15 p.m. Sunday local time, a suspect was located by police on one of the city's bridges. Quebec police confirmed to the media that several people have be...

Newly elected U.S. President Donald Trump will focus this week on trade, immigration and national security, issues about which he may sign executive orders in the coming days, chief of staff Reince Priebus said Sunday. In an interview with Fox News, Priebus said that there will be "movement" in those three areas during his first week in office. Trump on Friday, just hours after being inaugur...

By Wendy Anders Amidst flight delays due to ashfall in Costa Rica in recent days, Air Canada took the cake early this week for disrupting hundreds of passengers' plans due to a problem with the head count on board. Ken Joy posted on Facebook from Toronto, Canada at 11:30 p.m. Monday, Jan. 9 that he had finally made it home. He managed to have some good cheer left after facing over a day’s...

By Wendy Anders On New Year’s Eve day, a pilot for Canada’s Sunwing airlines was arrested after being discovered drunk on the plane he was to have flown from Calgary, in western Canada, to the Mexican city of Cancun, reported AFP. The pilot, a 37-year-old man, fainted before taking off, and was taken off the plane and stopped by Calgary police at around 7:00 a.m., continued AFP. The airli...

By Wendy Anders Air Canada last Thursday added a new seasonal route to its schedule of flights to and from Costa Rica. The direct Montreal-San José flight will operate during Montreal’s winter with two weekly flights on a Boeing 767-300ER with a capacity of 282 passengers, reported the airline in a press statement. Air Canada also operates Toronto-San José, Toronto-Liberia, and Montreal-L...

Quito, Dec. 14 — The Ecuadorian government on Wednesday signed a contract with Canada's Lundin Gold company to exploit a gold and silver deposit in the southeastern Amazon province of Zamora Chinchipe. Mining Minister Javier Cordova signed the deal to extract the precious metals as part of the Fruta del Norte project in the Yantzatza region. With an investment of $1 billion, the Canadian fir...

Lack of sleep among the U.S. working population is costing the economy up to $411 billion a year, which is 2.28 percent of the country's GDP, a new report finds. Map showing economic costs of insufficient sleep across five OECD countries. Credit: RAND Corporation According to researchers at the not-for-profit research organisation RAND Europe, part of the RAND Corporation, sleep deprivation...

CHURCHILL, Manitoba, Nov. 17 — A tour guide in Canada discovered that man's best friend has pals elsewhere in the animal kingdom when he captured video of a polar bear petting a dog. David De Meulles said he was taking a pair of North Star Tours clients on a polar bear watching expedition during the weekend in Churchill, Manitoba, when the group witnessed the meeting between the bear and dog, w...

By Wendy Anders Nicoya beach, Guanacaste. Flickr Commons Ontario, Canada's University of Windsor has a new dean of science who studies beaches around the world, and their deceptively strong rip tides. Whether it’s dangerous rip tides or currents in Costa Rica or beaches along the Great Lakes, Houser encounters the same problem. Swimmers don’t know how to spot a rip current. When your ...

(Reuters) - Leonard Cohen, rock music's man of letters whose songs fused religious imagery with themes of redemption and sexual desire, earning him critical and popular acclaim, has died at age 82, said a statement on his Facebook page. "It is with profound sorrow we report that legendary poet, songwriter and artist, Leonard Cohen has passed away," a statement on the Facebook page said. "We hav...

Briefly overwhelmed by web traffic from the U.S., several websites were down for a time Tuesday night. The spike in searches on moving to Canada as U.S. election results come in, Search Engine Land. As it became clear over the course of election night in the U.S. that Donald Trump was on track to becoming the 45th U.S. President, searches related to moving to Canada spiked. These included a...

In a new study, Harvard University researchers find over 90 percent of potential new Canadian hydroelectric projects are likely to increase concentrations of the neurotoxin methylmercury in food webs near indigenous communities. Muskrat Falls in Labrador Canada is the site of the upcoming Muskrat Falls hydroelectric facility. Credit: Prentiss Balcom (Harvard SEAS) The research forecasts pot...

By Wendy Anders Alleged 'greenwashing' by Infinito Gold, file photo. Just when you think it's over … Crucitas returns. On November 17-18, Canada’s Inifinito Gold company will face Broad Front Legislator Edgardo Araya in San José’s Second Judicial Criminal. The company is pressing charges for Araya’s alleged defamation of Infinito Gold during previous legal battles in which the company...

Washington, Oct. 14 — El Salvador came out on top last Friday in its long-running arbitration dispute with OceanaGold Corporation, a Canadian-Australian gold and copper mining company. A gold mine in Myanmar, to give an idea of what even the beginning of such an operation looks like. Photo for illustrative purposes, source - Facebook. The company had sought $250 million in compensation for ...

MEXICO PRESS Photo of Barbara McClatchie Andrews from her Facebook page Mexico City, Oct. 1 — Canadian photographer Barbara McClatchie Andrews was found dead on a highway in the southeastern Mexican state of Yucatan, local authorities reported Friday. She was 74. According to a bulletin issued by the Attorney General's Office of Yucatan, the woman's lifeless body was found Friday morning a...

By Wendy Anders Wikimedia Commons “A computer geek who ran a website for the massive Internet-based Platinum Sports Book was fined $400,000 for his involvement in the illegal gambling scheme,” wrote Sam Pazzano for The Toronto Sun last Tuesday. The London, Ontario native, 59-year-old Gordon Baird, pleaded guilty to bookmaking and contributing to a criminal organization. The organizati...

VANCOUVER, Canada — Health Canada will now allow doctors to prescribe heroin to people who are severely addicted to opioids as per a recent amendment of their regulations, reported The Canadian Press last week. Photo for illustrative purposes, Flickr. The amendment was included in light of the country’s opioid overdose crisis, stated the Canadian daily, and prescription heroin treatment all...

By Wendy Anders Marketwire reported today that Toronto, Canada-based Bravo Multinational Incorporated earlier this year partially acquired the Centro de Entretenimiento y Diversion Mombacho S.A., located in Managua, Nicaragua. Bravo to date has purchased 150 of a total contracted 500 slot and video poker gaming machines to be operated and managed under a long-term national license throug...

By Wendy Anders High-level Costa Rican judicial, police, immigration, and other government officials met today with Canadian experts to discuss and plan actions towards a stronger and more coordinated effort on curbing human trafficking in the country, stated the judiciary branch in a press release. The experts reviewed a report on the human trafficking mapping project which began in Septemb...

Source: IKEA Swedish furniture giant Ikea said Wednesday it was recalling 29 million dressers and chests in the MALM line from the U.S. market after a sixth child was crushed to death when one of the pieces fell on him. The recall also covers 6.6 million drawers sold in Canada, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, or CPSC, said. "The recalled chests and dressers are unstable if they a...

Activists staged a protest Tuesday morning in front of the Canadian Embassy just south of Manila calling for the removal of garbage shipped from Canada to the Philippines, an epa journalist on the scene reports. About 25 members of the EcoWaste Coalition gathered on a concrete median in the middle of the road in front of the embassy, with many wearing gas masks and straw hats. In addition to...

Wikimedia Commons Toronto, May 10 (EFE).- Canadian William Gadoury, age 15, discovered an ancient Maya city in the Yucatan jungle without leaving home while reviewing satellite images on his computer, local media reported Tuesday. Gadoury, who admits being fascinated by the Maya civilization, discovered that the location of bright stars in various constellations corresponded to the location...

Canadian Red Cross Toronto, May 3 (EFE).- Canadian authorities on Tuesday ordered the evacuation of large parts of the city of Fort McMurray, some 2,600 kilometers (1,600 miles) northeast of Toronto due to the danger posed by forest fires in the vicinity. The city, home to more than 60,000 people, many of them immigrants, is one of the country's petroleum centers. The forced evacuation a...

Brian Pallister (R) is pictured here in 2014. (Mark Blevis / Flickr) A public records search of Costa Rica’s Registro Nacional reveals that Brian Pallister, the conservative Canadian politician who opinion polls suggest is leading the Manitoba election but who recently has come under fire for spending nearly 20 percent of his time in the legislature away at his vacation home in Costa Rica, own...

Brian Pallister (R) is pictured here in 2014. (Mark Blevis / Flickr) A conservative Canadian politician who opinion polls suggest is leading the Manitoba election race, which is entering its final days, is facing tough criticism for spending too much time in Costa Rica since being elected to Manitoba’s Legislative Assembly in 2012. Citing public records, Brian Pallister, Manitoba’s Progress...

Source: Diego Reyna Facebok Toronto, Apr 4 (EFE).- A Mexican construction worker helping to build Trump Tower in Vancouver, British Columbia, placed his country's flag on the building to protest recent statements by U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump. Diego Reyna placed the flag over the weekend, Canadian media reported Monday, and he later posted a photo on the social media ...

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford at City Hall in Toronto, Nov. 13, 2013. (Reuters OMX) Rob Ford, the controversial former mayor of  the city of Toronto, Canada died Tuesday at the age of 46 following a battle with a rare form of cancer. The former mayor of Canada’s largest city became known for his problems with illegal drugs and alcohol. In November 2013 Ford admitted to smoking crack cocaine after ...

Wikimedia Commons Toronto, Mar 15 (EFE).- Toronto police said Tuesday they have not dismissed terrorism as the motive behind the stabbing of two Canadian soldiers at a recruiting center on the city's north side. Toronto Police Chief Mark Saunders identified at a press conference Tuesday the suspected assailant as 27-year-old Montreal native Ayanie Hassan Ali. The suspect, who will appear...

Santiago, Feb 16 (EFE).- Chile's judiciary issued a warrant Tuesday for police to search the Queen Mary II, set to dock this week in the Andean nation, in order to discover the circumstances surrounding the death of a Chilean man who worked on the cruise ship as a chef. Favio Oñate, 26, leaped overboard before dawn on Aug. 15 as the vessel was sailing off the Canadian coastline. The procedur...

Wikimedia Commons Toronto, Nov 23 (EFE).- The Canadian government's plan to accept 25,000 Syrian refugees in the coming weeks is to be open only to women, children and families, The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reported Monday. Single males are excluded based on security concerns, according to the CBC network. Details of the plan will be revealed Sunday by Prime Minister Justin Trud...

Prime Minister Trudeau and President Peña Nieto By Helen Cook Manila, Nov 18 (EFE).- Philippine social-networking sites have been awash with praise for Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who have caused a stir here among a segment of the female population since arriving for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit. Only minutes after they...

Source: Liberal Party of Canada Canadian voters elected a new Prime Minister (PM) on Monday, October 19th. PM elect Justin Trudeau and his Liberal Party represent the new political majority in Canada with 184 legislative seats, which is equivalent to 54 percent of the Parliament. The election brought an end to the PM Stephen Harper era, which lasted 10 years of political dominance for the C...