Category Archives: Canada
Crown, attorney general to appeal mosque gunman Alexandre Bissonnette's sentence
MONTREAL - Quebec’s Crown prosecutors’ office and the provincial attorney general will appeal the sentence handed down to the gunman who killed six worshippers in a Quebec City mosque in J...
Mar 11, 2019
Utah plaintiffs seek to force Omar Khadr to answer their questions
TORONTO - Relatives looking to collect on an American lawsuit against Omar Khadr are asking a Canadian court to force the former Guantanamo Bay prisoner to answer questions about his confession to pur...
Mar 11, 2019
Ottawa professor who died in Ethiopia plane crash remembered for public outreach
Ottawa professor Pius Adesanmi, one of the 18 Canadians killed in Sunday’s Ethiopian Airlines crash, is being remembered as a public intellectual whose outreach to Africans across the globe shap...
Mar 11, 2019
Foreign service workers' union asks for binding arbitration in contract talks
OTTAWA - The union representing Canada’s diplomatic corps says it has filed a request to go to arbitration with the federal government after the two sides couldn’t agree on a new contract ...
Mar 11, 2019
Caregivers still vulnerable under new immigration rules, advocates warn
OTTAWA - Migrant workers employed in Canada as caregivers are confused by new changes to immigration programs aimed at them, with many concerned the changes could mean more barriers to obtaining perma...
Mar 11, 2019
NDP leader Singh hopes new deputy will help party 'reconnect' with Quebec
MONTREAL - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh was barely a minute into his speech Monday announcing a deputy leader from Quebec when he invoked the memory of Jack Layton, who famously led the party to its 2011 ...
Mar 11, 2019
Renewed efforts to find Montreal boy a year after his disappearance
MONTREAL - A year after 10-year-old Ariel Jeffrey Kouakou vanished after setting out to visit a friend in north-end Montreal, new efforts are being launched this week to find him. On Tuesday and Wedne...
Mar 11, 2019
Feds launch review of official-languages law 50 years after its introduction
OTTAWA - The federal government is launching a review of the Official Languages Act, saying it is time to modernize the decades-old law. The 1969 law enshrined Canadians’ right to receive federa...
Mar 11, 2019
Former Conservative candidate charged with campaign theft from 2015 election
OTTAWA - A failed Conservative candidate from the 2015 federal election has been charged with stealing more than $5,000 from campaign coffers. The federal public prosecution service has charged former...
Mar 11, 2019
Transport Minister says he would board a Boeing 737 despite crash
MONTREAL - Transport Minister Marc Garneau said he would board “without hesitation” the type of aircraft that crashed in the Ethiopian Airlines tragedy on Sunday, stressing his confidence ...
Mar 11, 2019