Category Archives: Canada
McGill to announce decision on contentious Redmen team name in January
MONTREAL - A report on renaming buildings, scholarships and other entities at McGill University to adapt to 21st century concerns has exposed the divisive nature of the debate over the name of the sch...
Dec 07, 2018
Feds to let court decide on releasing cabinet secrets to Norman lawyers
OTTAWA - The federal government says it will let a judge decide whether to release thousands of pages of cabinet secrets to Vice-Admiral Mark Norman’s lawyers, who have argued the records are ne...
Dec 07, 2018
Quebec says Ottawa owes it $300 million for costs related to refugee influx
MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Francois Legault said he made progress during Friday’s first ministers’ meeting on his demand that the federal government pay $300 million in compensation to cove...
Dec 07, 2018
Fractured care system ill-equipped to deal with abuse at Halifax orphanage
HALIFAX - A new report from an ongoing public inquiry into decades of abuse at a Halifax-area orphanage says a fragmented system of care wasn’t equipped to address the needs of children who were...
Dec 07, 2018
Winnipeg company's humorous bid to keep kids safe not so funny for parents
WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg business is apologizing after a humorous attempt to discourage parents from dropping off their children on its property to attend a nearby elementary school backfired. The sign p...
Dec 07, 2018
UN committee tells Canada to do more on sterilizations of Indigenous women
OTTAWA - Canada has to stop the “extensive forced or coerced sterilization” of Indigenous women and girls in Canada, the United Nations Committee Against Torture told the country on Friday...
Dec 07, 2018
Call centre abruptly closes in Cape Breton, leaving hundreds without work
SYDNEY, N.S. - Politicians offered a glimmer of hope Friday to hundreds of Cape Breton call centre workers grappling with layoffs less than three weeks before Christmas, saying the operation has a ...
Dec 07, 2018
Carbon monoxide poisonings in B.C. prompt warning about detectors
VANCOUVER - A senior paramedic in British Columbia is encouraging homeowners to buy carbon monoxide detectors and inspect their appliances following a spike in poisonings in the past week. Leon Barano...
Dec 07, 2018
Inquiry into murder-suicide involving Afghan veteran to being early next year
HALIFAX - The long-awaited fatality inquiry into the death of an Afghan war veteran who killed his family and himself in rural Nova Scotia is expected to begin early next year - more than two years af...
Dec 07, 2018
In the news today, Dec. 7
Four stories in the news for Friday, Dec. 7 --- CHINESE TELECOM EXEC DUE IN VANCOUVER COURT A Chinese telecommunications executive who was arrested after an extradition request from the United States ...
Dec 07, 2018