Category Archives: Canada
Health minister pitches dental-care changes to get dentists onside
OTTAWA - Health Minister Mark Holland is announcing tweaks to Ottawa's new dental-care plan in a bid to get more dentists, hygienists and oral-health care providers to participate. Dental and hygienis...
Apr 17, 2024
'Heart breaks': Advocates say new disability benefit still leaves people in poverty
Advocates say a disability benefit that was supposed to be a historic move to lift people out of poverty turned out to be a disappointment in the federal budget. The new Canada Disability Benefit will...
Apr 17, 2024
Officer in charge tells inquest everything possible was done to save B.C. hostage
BURNABY, B.C. - The officer in charge when police in Surrey, B.C., killed a hostage taker and the woman he was holding says he believes he did everything possible to save her. RCMP Insp. Blair White t...
Apr 17, 2024
Too early for conclusions on integrity of last two elections, MP Chong tells inquiry
OTTAWA - Conservative MP Michael Chong is urging a federal inquiry to refrain from making final conclusions about the integrity of the last two general elections, saying it is too early to do so. The ...
Apr 17, 2024
All federal ministers will participate in process to find 5,000 jobs to cut: Anand
OTTAWA - Treasury Board President Anita Anand says no government ministry and agency will be left out of the process of cutting 5,000 public-service positions. Anand, who is responsible for much of th...
Apr 17, 2024
Capital gains are going to be taxed more, and these economists say it's a good thing
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is going to change how capital gains are taxed in Canada, which will affect corporations and the country's wealthiest individuals. The federal budget presented Tuesday ...
Apr 17, 2024
Ottawa must revisit assisted dying for Alzheimer's, dementia patients: advocates
OTTAWA - Now is the time to urge Ottawa that people with disorders such as Alzheimer's and dementia should be able to request medical assistance in dying before their cognitive decline, says the CEO o...
Apr 17, 2024
In rare move, House to admonish private citizen for contempt in ArriveCan testimony
OTTAWA - The House of Commons is preparing to admonish a private citizen today for the first time in more than 100 years. It's just the latest example of ArriveCan fallout as MPs point fingers over th...
Apr 17, 2024
Tories accuse minister of 'politicizing' Governor General's office over online harms
OTTAWA - A spokeswoman for Gov. Gen. Mary Simon says she will continue to advocate for "digital respect," despite suggestions it's inappropriate for her to wade in when a government bill addressing th...
Apr 17, 2024
10 years in U.S. prison for Canadian man who stole millions with fake psychic fraud
MONTREAL - A former Montreal resident has been sentenced to 10 years in a United States federal prison for a multi-decade fraud that manipulated more than one million Americans into sending money to f...
Apr 17, 2024