Category Archives: Canada
Canadian warship witnesses possible violations of North Korea sanctions
OTTAWA - The crew of a Canadian warship in the Pacific had front-row seats to potential violations of UN sanctions against North Korea during a recent patrol in the East China Sea - but was under orde...
Dec 11, 2018
Longtime New Democrat Robinson considers political return in Burnaby riding
OTTAWA - Former New Democrat stalwart Svend Robinson says he is strongly considering a return to federal politics, noting his former party is facing challenging times. Robinson, 66, represented the Va...
Dec 11, 2018
New psychiatric assessment ordered for alleged Fredericton shooter
FREDERICTON - A Fredericton man accused of murdering four people in an August shooting spree has been ordered to undergo a 60-day psychiatric assessment. It will determine if Matthew Raymond can be fo...
Dec 11, 2018
No flood of extremist returnees to Canada expected, federal report says
OTTAWA - There has been no surge of extremist travellers returning to Canada, despite the overseas setbacks suffered by militant forces in Iraq and Syria, a new federal report says. The annual report ...
Dec 11, 2018
Quebec adoptees finally getting some long-sought answers about their roots
CHAMBLY, Que. - For Raymonde Thibeault, it was the little details others took for granted about their roots that weighed on her. Adopted on Christmas Day 1955 just weeks after her birth, she knew noth...
Dec 11, 2018
Feds given green light to award warship contract after tribunal reverses course
OTTAWA - The federal government can award a contract to design the country’s $60-billion fleet of new warships after a trade tribunal reversed an earlier order not to finish the deal. The Canadi...
Dec 11, 2018
Canadian physicist who won Nobel Prize touts science for the sake of science
Winning a Nobel Prize changed nearly everything about Donna Strickland’s professional life except the principles that helped shape it in the first place. The University of Waterloo professor has...
Dec 11, 2018
Prairie police chiefs call on Ottawa for help as meth-fuelled crime skyrockets
OTTAWA - Police chiefs say methamphetamine is fuelling a crime wave in some of Western Canada’s biggest cities as use of the highly addictive drug skyrockets across the Prairies. Calgary’s...
Dec 11, 2018
Trump to envoy Canada says Huawei arrest not political, but China rise is worrying
OTTAWA - China’s economic and political rise may be bad news for North American workers but the U.S. pursuit of a Huawei executive is a separate legal matter, says Donald Trump’s envoy to ...
Dec 11, 2018
Postal union challenges constitutionality of government's back-to-work bill
OTTAWA - The union representing Canada Post employees is taking the Trudeau government to court over the legislation that ended rotating strikes by its members. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers sa...
Dec 11, 2018