Category Archives: Canada
First Nations chiefs boo Scheer for not saying how he's different from Harper
OTTAWA - Hundreds of First Nations chiefs booed Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer on Thursday when the opposition leader told them they will have to wait until his platform is released to see how he d...
Dec 06, 2018
Only two cautions issued to Manitoba retailers since cannabis legalized
WINNIPEG - Manitoba’s cannabis regulator says stores in the province are following the rules of legalized recreational marijuana. The Liquor, Gaming and Cannabis Authority of Manitoba says no re...
Dec 06, 2018
Trudeau says government will limit gun access as Polytechnique victims remembered
MONTREAL - Fourteen beams of light shone into the night sky from Montreal’s Mount Royal Thursday evening in memory of the 14 women who died at the Ecole Polytechnique engineering school 29 years...
Dec 06, 2018
Foreign countries will try to twist Canadian opinion online in 2019, feds warn
OTTAWA - Foreign countries are very likely to try to advance their agendas in 2019 - a general election year - by manipulating Canadian opinion with malicious online activity, says the federal centre ...
Dec 06, 2018
B.C. Speaker chairs all-party meeting on legislature finances, personnel issues
VICTORIA - An all-party committee that oversees the financial management of British Columbia’s legislature meets today in the midst of an ongoing mystery that saw the building’s top two of...
Dec 06, 2018
In the news today, Dec. 6
Seven stories in the news for Thursday, Dec. 6 --- FORCILLO TO LEARN IF TOP COURT WILL HEAR APPEAL A Toronto police officer who shot a teenager on an empty streetcar five years ago finds out today if ...
Dec 06, 2018
Canadian businesses face retaliatory risk after Huawei arrest: analysts
OTTAWA - Canada’s arrest of a Chinese telecommunications executive in Vancouver at the request of the United States sparked widespread surprise, but in security and diplomatic circles it was pur...
Dec 06, 2018
Women in vulnerable demographics most at risk of domestic homicide, study finds
More than three quarters of Canada’s domestic homicide victims were women, according to a new report released Thursday that said belonging to some specific demographic groups elevates the risk o...
Dec 06, 2018
Ontario environment minister meets with federal counterpart in Toronto
TORONTO - The federal environment minister met with her Ontario counterpart in Toronto on Thursday, where they discussed the province’s new plan to address climate change. The Progressive Conser...
Dec 06, 2018
Liberals revamp contentious anti-abortion test for summer jobs funding
OTTAWA - Contentious wording in Ottawa’s summer-jobs program that required groups to declare themselves supportive of abortion rights to get funding has been dropped, and new rules put in place ...
Dec 06, 2018