Category Archives: Canada
Charges laid in Ottawa under new crime of harassing a health worker
OTTAWA - A 58-year-old Ontario man is facing charges under a new law against intimidating a health-care worker. Ottawa police say there is a warrant out for the arrest of Louis Mertzelos in relation t...
Oct 13, 2022
Quebec rights body probes case of Inuk teen allegedly put in isolation, denied care
MONTREAL - Quebec's youth rights commission is investigating the case of an Inuk teenager who was allegedly placed in isolation at a Montreal-area rehabilitation centre while in pain and in need of me...
Oct 13, 2022
Mélanie Joly pushes LNG ties in Japan and South Korea, amid North Korea missiles
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly says Canada is set to become a major energy supplier for Japan and South Korea. She is visiting both countries this week, and says there is an appetite fo...
Oct 13, 2022
Climate change fears high but vary by region, new poll suggests
OTTAWA - Millions of Canadians in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Ontario will receive their quarterly carbon price rebate payments on Friday. But a new poll suggests residents of most of those pr...
Oct 13, 2022
Hockey Canada board resigned after justice Thomas Cromwell's recommendation
A former Supreme Court justice recommended wholesale change at Hockey Canada a day before the embattled sports organization's president/CEO and board resigned on Tuesday. Hockey Canada released a memo...
Oct 13, 2022
Feds don't know how many employees speak an Indigenous language at work
OTTAWA - The federal government says it doesn't know how many of its employees are expected to speak an Indigenous language as part of their job. It comes as Ottawa faces calls to expand the compensat...
Oct 13, 2022
Sajjan likens Russian missile strikes on Ukraine cities to Holodomor famine
OTTAWA - International Development Minister Harjit Sajjan says Russia's strikes on Ukraine's civilian infrastructure have him thinking about a historical famine. The Holodomor was a man-made famine in...
Oct 13, 2022
U.S. is holding Nexus trusted-traveller program 'hostage,' Canadian envoy says
WASHINGTON - Canada's envoy to the United States says the cross-border Nexus trusted-traveller program is being "held hostage" by a U.S. effort to renegotiate the 20-year-old agreement. Kirsten Hillma...
Oct 13, 2022
Quebecer charged in 22-year-old murder after beefed-up cold case unit logs 1st arrest
MONTREAL - A Quebec man has been charged with first-degree murder and aggravated sexual assault in the homicide of a junior college student 22 years ago. A Crown prosecutor says Marc-Andr Grenon was c...
Oct 13, 2022
Budget officer projects considerably slower economy, declining federal deficit
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer is projecting the economy will slow considerably in the second half of 2022 and remain weak next year as the Bank of Canada continues to raise interest rates....
Oct 13, 2022