Category Archives: Canada
Infrastructure bank narrows gaze to more than a dozen projects, CEO says
OTTAWA - The federal agency built to find new ways to pay for new Canadian infrastructure says it is deep in talks on over a dozen projects. In the fall, officials with the Canada Infrastructure Bank ...
Jan 26, 2019
Quiet Canadian diplomacy helped Guaido's anti-Maduro movement in Venezuela
OTTAWA - The politician Canada and its allies recognize as Venezuela’s real leader stood in a Caracas plaza Friday and exhorted his supporters to “stay the course” if he winds up beh...
Jan 26, 2019
B.C. byelection tests NDP's slim minority as provincial focus on Nanaimo
VICTORIA - The slim hold on power Premier John Horgan’s minority NDP government has in British Columbia will be tested Wednesday in a byelection on Vancouver Island where a Liberal win would lea...
Jan 26, 2019
Crisp & Delicious chicken nugget recall due to possible Salmonella contamination
OTTAWA - The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has issued a recall of Crisp & Delicious brand Chicken Breast Nuggets due to possible Salmonella contamination. The uncooked breaded chicken pieces wer...
Jan 26, 2019
No winning ticket for Friday night's $17.4 million Lotto Max jackpot
TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $17.4 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next Lotto Max draw on Feb. 1 will be approximately $26 million. The Cana...
Jan 26, 2019
Former Liberal Raj Grewal says he's staying on as MP, says he has grown
BRAMPTON, Ont. - Former Liberal MP Raj Grewal says he’s staying on as the member of Parliament for Brampton East. Last November, Grewal announced he was taking a leave to deal with what he calle...
Jan 25, 2019
Man found guilty of sexually assaulting wife under threat of deportation
WINDSOR, Ont. - A Windsor, Ont., man abused his wife's precarious immigration status by continuously using the threat of deportation to pressure her to perform sex acts she would not otherwise have co...
Jan 25, 2019
McCallum says dropping Meng extradition would be 'great' for Canada: report
VANCOUVER - A media report is quoting Canada’s ambassador to China as saying it would be “great for Canada” if the United States drops an extradition request against a Huawei executi...
Jan 25, 2019
Feds sued for short-changing disabled veterans and alleged cover-up
TORONTO - The federal government knowingly short-changed hundreds of thousands of disabled veterans and RCMP members about $165 million in benefits, a proposed class action filed in Federal Court on F...
Jan 25, 2019
Canadians rescue five injured peacekeepers following second attack in a week
OTTAWA - Canadian peacekeepers in Mali launched their second medical-evacuation mission in less than a week after a UN armoured vehicle triggered an explosive device Friday, killing two and wounding s...
Jan 25, 2019