Category Archives: Canada
Liberals want quick results from new skills-training think-tank in Toronto
OTTAWA - Federal efforts to calm anxiety about a rapidly changing job market took another step Thursday as the Liberals launched a new agency ahead of a federal budget that will put a heavy focus on s...
Feb 14, 2019
Violent protests in Haiti trap more than 100 Canadian tourists, aid workers
MONTREAL - Ottawa-based physician Emilio Bazile says food is running low for him and his 10-member medical team who have been trapped in southwest Haiti after protesters blocked major highways across ...
Feb 14, 2019
In the news today, Feb. 14
Six stories in the news for Thursday, Feb. 14 --- QUADRIGACX CASE TO RETURN TO HALIFAX COURT TODAY The bizarre case involving the cryptocurrency firm QuadrigaCX is expected to return to a Halifax cour...
Feb 14, 2019
Sailor shortage causing headaches for Royal Canadian Navy
OTTAWA - A shortage of sailors is making it hard for the Royal Canadian Navy to operate its ships and work on replacing them at the same time, according to a senior naval officer. The revelation by Co...
Feb 14, 2019
Drug users, advocates fear federal election may sideline safer opioids policy
VANCOUVER - The co-founder of a national group of parents whose children have died of overdoses fears the looming federal election will derail any policy changes that could make a safer supply of opio...
Feb 14, 2019
Almost half of EI sickness-benefit recipients off work longer than help lasts
OTTAWA - An internal government survey of people who used federal sickness benefits has found that nearly half were unable to work for longer than the 15 weeks the benefits last. The newly released do...
Feb 14, 2019
Lawyer says QuadrigaCX is out of money: 'We don't have anything'
HALIFAX - Once one of Canada’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, QuadrigaCX has now run out of money. “As of today, we don’t have anything,” Maurice Chiasson, a lawyer represen...
Feb 14, 2019
Saskatchewan's challenge of federal carbon tax in hands of Appeal court
REGINA - Five Saskatchewan judges have reserved their decision on the constitutionality of a federally imposed carbon tax after two days of hearings in Regina. Lawyers representing provincial governme...
Feb 14, 2019
Toronto woman found guilty of terror charges sentenced to seven years in prison
TORONTO - A woman convicted of terror charges for attacking workers at a Canadian Tire store in Toronto was sentenced to seven years in prison Thursday after a judge found her mental illness played a ...
Feb 14, 2019
Quebec says Ottawa would have to cover majority of Francophonie Games cost
QUEBEC - The Quebec government says Ottawa would have to pay the majority of the bill if the 2021 Francophonie Games are to be staged in the province. Nadine Girault, Quebec’s minister of intern...
Feb 13, 2019