Category Archives: Canada
Excerpts from the Humboldt Broncos victim impact statements submitted to court
MELFORT, Sask. - The driver of a transport truck involved in a deadly crash with the Humboldt Broncos hockey team bus will be sentenced Friday. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu has pleaded guilty to dangerous dri...
Mar 21, 2019
Legault government has long list of promises to fulfil with first budget today
QUEBEC - After five months in power, Francois Legault’s Coalition Avenir Quebec government will lay out its true priorities today as it tables its first budget. Legault has raised expectations w...
Mar 21, 2019
Trans woman hopes funding cut will send message to Vancouver rape crisis group
VANCOUVER - A transgender woman whose case against Canada’s oldest rape crisis centre was dismissed by the courts says she hopes the City of Vancouver’s decision to refuse the shelter fund...
Mar 21, 2019
As MPs pull all-nighter, Philpott breathes fresh life into SNC-Lavalin scandal
OTTAWA - Former cabinet minister Jane Philpott fanned the flames of the SNC-Lavalin fire Thursday as Liberals struggled to douse the controversy and focus Canadians’ attention on their pre-elect...
Mar 21, 2019
'It has to send a message:' Broncos families await sentencing for truck driver
Kevin Matechuk says he will never, never forgive the semi driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash. Matechuk’s 19-year-old son Layne of Colonsay, Sask., is still coping with a bra...
Mar 21, 2019
Saskatchewan judge dismisses land use charges against protest group founder
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A judge has dismissed charges against one of the founders of the Indigenous Idle No More protest movement who was accused of living illegally on Saskatchewan park land. Sylvia M...
Mar 20, 2019
Davie, rivals square off over future of multibillion-dollar shipbuilding plan
OTTAWA - The president of Davie Shipbuilding says he is confident the Quebec-based shipyard will be tapped to build two new ferries included in this week’s federal budget. But James Davies says ...
Mar 20, 2019
Quebec government to spend $500 million to compensate taxi drivers, reform industry
QUEBEC - The Quebec government will give the province’s taxi drivers $500 million in compensation as it moves to overhaul the province’s passenger transport industry. The Coalition Avenir ...
Mar 20, 2019
Winnipeg labour leader quits; cites sexist comments, treatment by men
WINNIPEG - A labour leader in Manitoba has resigned from her job over what she says have been sexist remarks and dismissive treatment by some of her male colleagues in the labour movement. Basia Sokal...
Mar 20, 2019
Police make arrest after 'erratic driver' hits cars near University of Ottawa
OTTAWA - A man is in police custody after an “erratic driver” smashed into several cars near the University of Ottawa. Ottawa police say several vehicles were damaged in the incident just ...
Mar 20, 2019