Canada

Minister sorry for 'crappy piece of land' remark that angered pro-Palestinian groups

British Columbia's Post-Secondary Education Minister Selina Robinson has apologized for saying Israel was founded on a "crappy piece of land," remarks that have angered pro-Palestinian groups and othe...

Feb 02, 2024

Lawyer for father of murdered B.C. girl denies client brought gun to Ali verdict

VANCOUVER - A lawyer representing the father of a murdered 13-year-old girl says the man did not bring a gun into a Vancouver courtroom eight weeks ago, on the day Ibrahim Ali was convicted of the kil...

Feb 02, 2024

Judge sets aside ruling that granted U.S. trans woman's refugee status in Canada

VANCOUVER - A Federal Court judge has set aside a decision to grant refugee status to an American transgender woman, sending her application back for redetermination. In a decision released this week,...

Feb 02, 2024

Catherine Tait says CBC needs new financial model, not new mandate

OTTAWA - The head of Canada's public broadcaster says it's the financial model and governance of CBC/Radio-Canada that need reviewing - not its mandate. Catherine Tait made the comments today to a roo...

Feb 02, 2024

Politics trumped legal advice in decision not to revoke citizenship of Nazi in 1960s

OTTAWA - A report on Canada's handling of Nazi war criminals suggests politics played a key role in the 1967 decision to preserve the citizenship of a man convicted of war crimes in the Soviet Union. ...

Feb 02, 2024

B.C. coroner's inquest jury begins deliberations about deadly Winters Hotel fire

VANCOUVER - The jury in a coroner's inquest into the Winters Hotel fire in Vancouver two years ago has been stood down to deliberate its recommendations about the deadly blaze. For two weeks the inque...

Feb 02, 2024

Feds unveil web tool to track representation, pay disparity for women, minorities

Ottawa launched a new pay transparency website Friday to better illustrate how women, visible minorities, people with disabilities and Indigenous Peoples are represented and paid at federally regulate...

Feb 02, 2024

Turning Rideau Cottage into prime minister's permanent home comes with cost: docs

OTTAWA - Turning Rideau Cottage into the permanent residence of the prime minister would come at the cost of creating staff offices and other "residential infrastructure," an internal government docum...

Feb 02, 2024

"Most anti-LGBT in the country": Trudeau decries Alberta transgender policies

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling Alberta's new proposals on the treatment of transgender youth the "most anti-LGBT of anywhere in the country." Trudeau says that if Alberta Premier Danielle Sm...

Sheldon Spackman Feb 02, 2024

Trudeau mulls sanctioning Israeli settlers, 'seized' with case of missing Canadian

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is looking into sanctions against Israeli settlers in the West Bank who have been accused of attacking Palestinians and Israeli peace activists in th...

Feb 02, 2024