Category Archives: Canada
Trudeau pressed in Quebec City to give more contracts to Davie shipyard
QUEBEC - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered an optimistic vision for Quebec but few concrete promises on Friday as he delivered a series of campaign-style speeches in the provincial capital. With t...
Jan 25, 2019
Police seizure of sex assault suspect's coffee cup justified: Appeal Court
MONTREAL - Quebec’s highest court has ruled that tricking a sexual assault suspect into providing his DNA does not constitute a privacy violation. Giovanni D’Amico had appealed his 2014 co...
Jan 25, 2019
Liberals' infrastructure program problems detailed in internal documents
OTTAWA - A large number of small construction transit and water system projects funded through the first phase of the Liberal government’s infrastructure program bogged down the approval process...
Jan 25, 2019
Top military judge to face court martial overseen by deputy this summer
OTTAWA - The Canadian Forces’ top judge is set to be tried in a court martial this spring that will be overseen by his own deputy, in a case that is shaping up as a test for the military’s...
Jan 25, 2019
U.S. hunters use duck hunting ruse to bag illegal quarry in Canada: ministry
REGINA - Several charges related to illegal hunting in Saskatchewan have been laid against two men from Missouri who were found guilty last month in one of that state’s largest deer-poaching cas...
Jan 25, 2019
As U.S. air travel stalls, Trump agrees to halt shutdown temporarily
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump sounded a full retreat Friday in his border-wall war with Congress, agreeing to a three-week pause in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history just as the im...
Jan 25, 2019
RCMP charge Kingston youth with trying to get someone to plant a bomb
KINGSTON, Ont. - The RCMP have charged a Kingston youth with terrorism, saying the person - who cannot be identified - allegedly tried to persuade someone to plant a bomb. A second individual, who cam...
Jan 25, 2019
Canada pulling refuelling plane from anti-ISIL mission
OTTAWA - Coalition warplanes will no longer turn to the Canadian military for mid-air fill ups over Iraq and Syria. The Canadian Forces will bring home its Polaris air-to-air refuelling plane on Satur...
Jan 25, 2019
Ethics czar warns Liberal-named CEO of investment body over conflict of interest
OTTAWA - The head of a federal investment-promotion agency - and former national director of the Liberal Party of Canada - resigned last week from the board of a holding company specializing in cannab...
Jan 25, 2019
In the news today, Jan. 25
Four stories in the news for Friday, Jan. 25 --- MOUNTIES TO GIVE UPDATE ON KINGSTON, ONT., ARRESTS RCMP are expected to give an update today on a national security investigation that saw two people a...
Jan 25, 2019