Category Archives: Canada
Joly tells Canadians in Sudan to shelter in place as 'dire' clashes close airport
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly says Canada has no means of evacuating citizens from Sudan, where violence has drastically escalated between the country's army and its rival paramilitary...
Apr 20, 2023
Officer told not to make handwritten notes after death of Myles Gray, inquest hears
BURNABY, B.C. - A Vancouver police officer says a senior member of the force who was acting as a union representative told him not to make any handwritten notes about the confrontation that resulted i...
Apr 20, 2023
Top Google exec says 'everybody loses' with online news bill at House committee
OTTAWA - A top Google executive told a House of Commons committee today that the Liberal government's online news bill would create a situation where everybody loses. Google's vice president for news,...
Apr 20, 2023
Strike thwarted prisoners advocate from entering Edmonton facility
OTTAWA - An organization that helps women in the justice system says it is concerned about an ongoing strike by Canada's largest public-service union after one of its advocates was unable to access an...
Apr 20, 2023
B.C. First Nation says 40 unmarked graves found around former residential school
SECHELT, B.C. - The shishalh Nation on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast says ground-penetrating radar has identified what are believed to be 40 unmarked graves of children on or near the site of the ...
Apr 20, 2023
B.C. stores broke privacy laws on facial ID technology, privacy commissioner says
VICTORIA - British Columbia's privacy commissioner says Canadian Tire stores that used facial recognition technology didn't adequately notify their customers and didn't get consent to collect the pers...
Apr 20, 2023
Canada's EV battery contract with Volkswagen could be worth more than $13 billion
OTTAWA - German auto giant Volkswagen has secured an exclusive contract with Canada that could be worth more than $13 billion over the next 10 years to build an electric-vehicle battery plant in south...
Apr 20, 2023
Quebec ministers sorry for broken promise on 'third link' tunnel in capital
QUEBEC - A parade of government ministers took turns today issuing sorrowful regrets for breaking a major election promise to build a multi-purpose vehicle tunnel linking Quebec City to its south shor...
Apr 20, 2023
Committee weighs bill to make feds accountable to Parliament on future pandemic plans
OTTAWA - A parliamentary health committee is weighing the need for new legislation that would force the Pubic Health Agency of Canada to table its plans to prevent and prepare for future pandemics in ...
Apr 20, 2023
Greenpeace calls for charges over releases from Imperial's Kearl oilsands mine
OTTAWA - An environmental group is calling for Imperial Oil to be charged over releases of toxic wastewater from its Kearl oilsands mine in northern Alberta. The call from Greenpeace comes as executiv...
Apr 20, 2023