Category Archives: Canada

Teacher who recorded students with pen camera is guilty of voyeurism: high court
OTTAWA - A high-school teacher who used a pen camera to surreptitiously take videos of female students is guilty of voyeurism, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled. In a ground-breaking decision Thur...
Feb 14, 2019
BlackBerry to get $40M in federal funds to support self-driving car development
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is giving $40 million in federal money to BlackBerry to help the company develop self-driving car technologies. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be in the Ottawa subu...
Feb 14, 2019

Ottawa spending $12 million to upgrade remote airport near site of 2017 crash
FOND DU LAC, Sask. - The federal government says it will spend $12 million to improve safety at a remote northern Saskatchewan airport near where a plane crashed in December 2017 shortly after takeoff...
Feb 14, 2019

Quebec tables legislation to create universal kindergarten for 4-year-olds
QUEBEC - The Quebec government moved towards fulfilling a key election promise today as it tabled a bill that would ensure children can attend kindergarten at four years old. The legislation introduce...
Feb 14, 2019

Quebec premier wants Ottawa to 'settle' with SNC-Lavalin so firm avoids trial
Quebec Premier Francois Legault says he wants the federal government to settle with engineering firm SNC-Lavalin “as soon as possible” in order to protect jobs and the company’s corp...
Feb 14, 2019
Health agency hunts for Canadians who had surgery at Tijuana clinic
OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada says at least 30 Canadians who had surgery at a clinic in Tijuana, Mexico are at risk of potentially deadly infection. But the agency isn’t sure, beca...
Feb 14, 2019

There wasn't an app for that? Environment Canada launches its own weather app
OTTAWA - Environment Canada is going mobile. The federal agency launched its first weather app for iPhone and Android this week, including a new high-resolution radar option so amateur meteorologists ...
Feb 14, 2019

Vodka company CEO scratching his head over Newfoundland iceberg water heist
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The remarkable theft of about 30,000 litres of iceberg water from a vodka company warehouse in Newfoundland has bewildered the firm’s owners. Iceberg Vodka CEO David Mey...
Feb 14, 2019

Reconciliation outlasts Wilson-Raybould: Indigenous senators
OTTAWA - Indigenous parliamentarians say Jody Wilson-Raybould’s controversial exit from the cabinet doesn’t signal the end of reconciliation efforts between the federal government and Indi...
Feb 14, 2019

B.C. proposes stronger security for witnesses testifying at criminal trials
VICTORIA - British Columbia is proposing changes to its witness protection program in order to strengthen security for people who could provide police with information on serious crimes. Public Safety...
Feb 14, 2019