Category Archives: Canada
Quebec environmentalists launch climate change lawsuit against Ottawa
MONTREAL - A group of young Quebecers is going to court claiming their fundamental rights have been violated as a result of federal government inaction on climate change. The group Environnement Jeune...
Nov 26, 2018
Quebec teen's hospital death from morphine 'highly preventable,' coroner finds
MONTREAL - When Jimmy Lee Durocher, a 17-year-old in otherwise perfect health, went into the operating room Jan. 14 at a hospital in St-Charles-Borromee, Que., his family expected it would be a routin...
Nov 26, 2018
Housing watchdog at risk as Liberals worry about too much bureaucracy
OTTAWA - Worried that they’d create too much new bureaucracy by hiring a new watchdog and setting up an adjudication system to enforce a right to housing they’ve promised, the federal Libe...
Nov 26, 2018
B.C. chief tells pipeline hearings his people are responsible for their land
VICTORIA - Protection of salmon, animals and the land in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia is an eternal responsibility of First Nations and the expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline poses risk...
Nov 26, 2018
Liberals say government must show it can pay for promises as legislature returns
MONTREAL - Quebec’s legislature resumes sitting Tuesday for the first time since the Oct. 1 election, and Premier Francois Legault has two weeks before the winter break to begin delivering on hi...
Nov 26, 2018
Defrocked Arctic priest Erik Dejaeger loses appeal of sex abuse convictions
IQALUIT, Nunavut - A defrocked Arctic priest jailed for abusing dozens of Inuit children has lost an appeal of his convictions and sentence. Erik Dejaeger, 71, will continue to serve his 19-year term ...
Nov 26, 2018
Report on Buddhist leader's alleged misconduct expected in January
HALIFAX - An independent probe into allegations against the spiritual leader of one of the western world’s largest Buddhist organizations has finished accepting new claims, with a final report i...
Nov 26, 2018
Student to get apology after being told her crop top was too distracting for gym
FREDERICTON - A Fredericton student who was told that the crop top she wore to a campus gym was too distracting will get an apology from St. Thomas University. MacKenzie Parsons said she was embarrass...
Nov 26, 2018
Politicians promise help for GM workers; stress that saving plant hopeless
Provincial and federal leaders alike conceded the futility Monday of trying to persuade General Motors to keep its Oshawa, Ont., automotive plant running beyond 2019, and instead focused on ways to ea...
Nov 26, 2018
'It's bad:' Oshawa, Ont., digests 'devastating' GM plant closure
OSHAWA, Ont. - Shell-shocked GM workers streamed into the rain and chill wind after their union sent them home on Monday amid word that their plant would be closing by the end of 2019, dealing a blow ...
Nov 26, 2018