Category Archives: Canada

In the news today: Trudeau denounces protest outside Toronto's Mount Sinai hospital
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Protest outside Mount Sinai Hospital 'reprehensible' show of antisemitism: Trud...
Feb 14, 2024

NDP to move bill calling for ban of coal exports as Canadian output booms
OTTAWA - Canadian exports of the kind of coal used to make electricity hit an eight-year high in 2022, even as the Liberals have promised to work on banning exports completely by the end of the decade...
Feb 14, 2024

Evolving 'Freedom' movement fighting perceptions of 'government overreach': CSIS
OTTAWA - The loosely knit collective that vocally opposed COVID-19 health measures has morphed into a movement waging a broader fight against "perceived government overreach," says a newly released as...
Feb 14, 2024

Once-moribund Parti Québécois is resurgent, but support for independence staying flat
MONTREAL - Almost a year and a half after it was widely seen as being near death, the Parti Qubcois is topping provincial polls. And the party's leader, Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, is the seen as the be...
Feb 14, 2024

Fewer than half of people support assisted death exclusively for mental illness: poll
OTTAWA - Fewer than half of Canadians feel medical assistance in dying should be available to people whose sole underlying condition is mental illness, the results of a new survey showed Wednesday. As...
Feb 14, 2024

UN tech envoy worries corporate profits will trump public interest on AI
MONTREAL - The United Nations' top tech official fears that corporate interests may undermine the push to rein in artificial intelligence, exacerbating social divisions and encroaching on human rights...
Feb 14, 2024

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in Whistler, B.C., for Invictus Games training camp
WHISTLER, B.C. - Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle plan to spend Valentine's Day in Whistler, B.C., this year to attend a training camp one year ahead of the 2025 Invictus Games. Prince Harry is...
Feb 14, 2024

Ottawa and Northwest Territories sign $36-million health care deal
YELLOWKNIFE - The Northwest Territories has signed deals with the federal government that earmark $36 million for the territory's health system. Federal Health Minister Mark Holland says one deal will...
Feb 13, 2024

Protest outside Mount Sinai Hospital 'reprehensible' show of antisemitism: Trudeau
TORONTO - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is denouncing a protest outside a Toronto hospital as a "reprehensible" display ofantisemitism as police say they are investigating several incidents that took ...
Feb 13, 2024

Bell CEO, other execs called to committee to testify over recent job cuts
OTTAWA - Members of Parliament have invited several top executives from BCE Inc. and Bell Canada to testify later this month about the company's decision to cut about nine per cent of its workforce th...
Feb 13, 2024