Category Archives: Canada
Canada has key role to play in U.S. economic recovery, Ng tells free-trade meeting
WASHINGTON - Canada's international trade minister is making her country's best case for being a central player in American efforts to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Mary Ng is taking part in the...
May 18, 2021
Gay activist upset at Ottawa's attempt to block challenge of blood-donation ban
OTTAWA - A man who is challenging Canada's policy that prohibits sexually active gay men from donating blood wants to know why the Trudeau government is trying to block his case, despite a 2015 Libera...
May 18, 2021
Ceasefire needed in Israeli-Palestinian conflict to avoid loss of more civilians: PM
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada is calling for a ceasefire in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to stop the violence that has been escalating in the region. He says the violence need...
May 18, 2021
Information watchdog investigates handling of archival spy files amid chronic delays
OTTAWA - The federal information watchdog is conducting a systemic investigation of the "ongoing failure" of the national archives to provide timely responses to requests from the public for historica...
May 18, 2021
RCMP operations continue at logging blockade on southern Vancouver Island
PORT RENFREW, B.C. - An RCMP spokesman says there will be "police action" today as Mounties enforce a court injunction against an anti-logging blockade on southern Vancouver Island. The RCMP announced...
May 18, 2021
Canada will need 75% vaccination before U.S. border reopens, Trudeau suggests
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is suggesting that three-quarters of Canadians will need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 before the Canada-U.S. border can be reopened. Trudeau acknowledge...
May 18, 2021
Quebec can modify part of the Canadian Constitution unilaterally: Trudeau
MONTREAL - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Quebec can unilaterally modify part of the Canadian Constitution. The province's proposed language law reform, introduced last week, seeks to change part ...
May 18, 2021
Echaquan inquiry: Quebec nurse admits prejudice among staff about Indigenous patients
MONTREAL - A nurse who works at the Quebec hospital where Joyce Echaquan died last September told a coroner's inquest today there is a perception among her colleagues that Indigenous people are alcoho...
May 18, 2021
Committee to grill justice minister on bill's potential to undermine free expression
OTTAWA - Justice Minister David Lametti will be on the hot seat this afternoon as a fired-up heritage committee grills him about Bill C-10's potential to undermine online freedom of expression. Lamett...
May 18, 2021
PBO report details changes in federal funding for First Nations, Inuit health care
OTTAWA - Parliament's budget watchdog says federal funding for health care for First Nations and Inuit has shot up faster over the last few years than provincial spending on services for the general p...
May 18, 2021