Category Archives: Canada
Liberals say they are looking at ways to provide minimum income to all Canadians
OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals appear to be warming to the idea of a guaranteed national minimum income as they search for ways to help Canadian workers adapt to an unsteady labour market. A guaranteed...
Dec 19, 2018
Thunder Bay police board accepts anti-Indigenous racism findings; plans apology
Faced with withering criticism from two separate reviews, the police oversight board in Thunder Bay, Ont., has now accepted findings of racism within both the board and police service itself and said ...
Dec 19, 2018
Advocates say Accessible Canada Act is too weak to be effective
The cautious optimism that prevailed in Canada’s disabled community when the federal government tabled historic accessibility legislation earlier this year has given way to widespread concern th...
Dec 19, 2018
List of concerns disability advocates have about Accessible Canada Act
A list of concerns disability advocates have expressed about the federal government’s Accessible Canada Act: - Bill C 81 does not include timelines, which advocates say are essential to ensure t...
Dec 19, 2018
Politicians more than half of Canadian Press newsmakers through the years
The Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team has been chosen as the 2018 Canadian Press Newsmaker of the Year. Here is a list of past newsmakers as chosen in an annual poll of newsrooms across the country:...
Dec 19, 2018
Paris staging of controversial Lepage play disappoints Indigenous artists.
MONTREAL - Innu writer Maya Cousineau Mollen travelled to Paris from Quebec hoping to find that Robert Lepage had heard the grievances of Indigenous artists about his play “Kanata.” But af...
Dec 19, 2018
New charges laid in police probe into incidents at St. Michael's College School
TORONTO - An investigation into alleged sexual and physical abuse at a prestigious private Toronto school led to the arrest of a seventh student Wednesday as police laid a slew of new charges in the c...
Dec 19, 2018
Tragedy and inspiration: Humboldt Broncos team chosen Newsmaker of the Year
Many died, several struggled in recovery and some hit the ice again. The Humboldt Broncos hockey team, changed forever after a highway crash in April, has been chosen as Canada’s Newsmaker of th...
Dec 19, 2018
Third Canadian detained in China not believed to be linked to other arrests: PM
OTTAWA - Chinese authorities have detained a third Canadian but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says there’s no reason yet to believe the case is linked to the recent arrests of two other Canadian...
Dec 19, 2018
In the news today, Dec. 19
Four stories in the news for Wednesday, Dec. 19 --- APPEAL COURT TO RULE IN B.C. TERROR CASE British Columbia’s Appeal Court is scheduled to release a decision today on a couple whose guilty ver...
Dec 19, 2018