CALGARY, Alberta—A necropsy has shown that a polar bear at a zoo in western Canada died by drowning after his throat was crushed by a fellow bear in rough play considered normal for the massive predators. The 7-year-old Baffin died at the Calgary Zoo on Friday after roughhousing in a pond with another male bear, […]
The United States, Canada, and Finland are launching a trilateral security partnership to boost the production of icebreaking ships, amid growing competition in the Arctic region. President Joe Biden, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, and Finnish President Alexander Stubb formally announced the agreement on July 11, during the ongoing North Atlantic Treaty Organization summit in […]
WASHINGTON–NATO leadership is working to ensure that all 32 of its member states meet a minimum defense expenditure annually. Speaking to a forum of international defense industry leaders on July 9, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said that the alliance’s ambition to spend 2 percent of GDP on defense will be considered a requirement rather than […]
Canadians everywhere celebrated Canada Day on July 1, marking the country’s 157th birthday. Cities across Canada celebrated with parades and festivities. NTD spoke to Canadians taking part in the celebrations, with many conveying messages of freedom, peace, tolerance, and gratitude.
A woman from China has been arrested at a Vermont lake bordering Quebec for trying to smuggle 29 eastern box turtles, a protected species, into Canada by kayak, according to Border Patrol agents. Wan Yee Ng was arrested on the morning of June 28 at an Airbnb in Canaan as she was about to get […]
The Canadian government announced on June 26 that it would allow commercial fishing of cod to restart off the country’s northeastern Atlantic coast after a ban lasting more than three decades. “Ending the Northern cod moratorium is a historic milestone for Newfoundlanders and Labradorians. It’s through working together that we have reached this moment,” Fisheries […]
OTTAWA—Canadian police blamed on Wednesday the driver of a small bus for a crash that killed 17 elderly people last year, saying he had pulled out in front of a speeding truck when it was not safe to do so. Authorities said they would not charge the driver, since he had suffered a traumatic brain […]
TORONTO—The gunman in a fatal Toronto shooting earlier this week believed the two victims had defrauded his family, his wife said Wednesday, as court records indicate the family was suing the pair after losing more than CDN $1 million in an alleged investment scam. A man and woman were shot to death and a male […]
TORONTO—A man and woman were shot to death and a male suspected as the attacker also died Monday at a north Toronto office space near a daycare center and a school, authorities said. The shooting prompted a lockdown of both the daycare facility and the Catholic all-boys elementary school, and parents rushed to the area […]
TORONTO—Austrian-Canadian auto parts billionaire Frank Stronach was arrested on sexual assault charges spanning decades, police said. The 91-year-old was charged Friday with five crimes including rape, indecent assault on a female, sexual assault and forcible confinement, Peel Regional Police said. He was released with conditions and will appear at the Ontario Court of Justice in […]
TORONTO—Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who took female victims to his pig farm during a crime spree near Vancouver in the late 1990s and early 2000s, has died after being assaulted in prison, authorities said Friday. He was 74. The Correctional Service of Canada said in statement that Mr. Pickton, an inmate of Port-Cartier Institution […]
MONTREAL—Convicted Canadian serial killer Robert Pickton, who brought female victims to his pig farm during a crime spree near Vancouver in the 1990s and early 2000s, was assaulted in prison and has been hospitalized in life-threatening condition, authorities said Tuesday. A 51-year-old inmate was in custody for the assault Sunday at a prison in Quebec, […]
A team of Canadian innovators was scooped up by China to boost its 5G development. NTD dives into how a once world-leading telecom giant and the former crown jewel of Canada’s high-tech industry fell into the hands of an infamous Chinese smartphone maker.
TORONTO—Canadian police announced Friday they have linked the deaths of four young women nearly 50 years ago to a now-deceased U.S. fugitive who hid in Canada from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s. Alberta Royal Canadian Mounted Police Supt. Dave Hall said Friday that Gary Allen Srery might also be linked to unsolved murders and […]
Canada is witnessing a series of major wildfires that have prompted evacuation orders in British Columbia and raised air quality alerts in several regions in the United States that are near the Canadian border. According to the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center, there are currently 137 active forest fires all over Canada. The center listed […]
TORONTO—Police are investigating a shooting outside rapper Drake’s mansion in Toronto that left a security guard seriously wounded. Authorities did not confirm whether Drake was at home at the time of the shooting, but said his team is cooperating. The shooting happened around 2 a.m. Tuesday in the affluent Bridle Path neighborhood of Toronto. Toronto […]
TORONTO—Police said nine people are facing charges in what authorities are calling the biggest gold theft in Canadian history from Toronto’s Pearson International airport a year ago. Peel Regional Police said Wednesday that 6,600 gold bars worth more than 20 million Canadian dollars ($14.5 million), and CA$2.5 million ($1.8 million) in foreign currencies were stolen. […]
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Plans are underway by to airlift a stranded killer whale calf out of a remote tidal lagoon off northern Vancouver Island in an effort to reunite the young orca with its extended family, Canadian authorities said Wednesday. Canadian Fisheries Department and First Nations officials said the plan involves placing the 2-year-old […]
Royal Bank of Canada on Friday said it appointed Katherine Gibson as interim Chief Financial Officer, effective immediately, following the departure of Nadine Ahn. The bank said it became aware of “allegations” against Ahn and launched an investigation that found she violated the bank’s code of conduct by having an “undisclosed close personal relationship with […]
DALLAS—Some who hope to witness Monday’s total solar eclipse may see the sun obscured by clouds instead of by the moon. There’s still plenty of time for forecasts to change, but meteorologists predict that eclipse day storms could blanket parts of the path, which stretches from Mexico and Texas through Maine and parts of Canada. […]
