Category Archives: Canada
Liberals go cold on talk about right to housing law, housing groups say
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals aren’t living up to a promise to legislate a right to housing, a group of housing and homelessness advocates say, and that’s threatening the objectives of the...
Nov 26, 2018
Senate passes back-to-work bill, putting end to rotating postal strikes
OTTAWA - Mail service will resume all across the country at noon Tuesday after the Senate passed legislation ordering an end to five weeks of rotating strikes by postal workers. Royal assent was grant...
Nov 26, 2018
Man killed Calgary woman, daughter because girlfriend broke up with him: Crown
CALGARY - A man accused in a double murder killed a woman who was trying to protect a close friend and then silenced the woman’s five-year-old daughter who was a witness, a Crown prosecutor sugg...
Nov 26, 2018
General Motors to close Oshawa plant, affecting thousands of jobs: source
OSHAWA, Ont. - General Motors Canada will announce on Monday that it’s closing its plant in Oshawa, Ont., in a move that will affect thousands of jobs in the city east of Toronto, The Canadian P...
Nov 25, 2018
'People just relate': Americans remember seven months after Humboldt crash
DENVER - It’s been seven months since the Humboldt Broncos bus crash and Americans are still closely watching the aftermath of the tragedy. The April 6 accident on a Saskatchewan highway claimed...
Nov 25, 2018
Quebec declares Arvida neighbourhood in Saguenay a heritage site
MONTREAL - The Quebec government has recognized the Arvida neighbourhood in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region as a heritage site. The status protecting former the industrial town - now a historic nei...
Nov 25, 2018
Postal negotiators still talking as Senate vote on back-to-work bill approaches
OTTAWA - Under threat of back-to-work legislation that could pass through the Senate by late Monday, negotiators remained at the bargaining table Sunday in a last-ditch effort to bring an unforced end...
Nov 25, 2018
Security agencies warn industry of foreign espionage threat to networks
OTTAWA - Canadian companies should watch out when they use technology supplied by state-owned companies from countries that want to steal corporate secrets, the country’s security agencies have ...
Nov 25, 2018
Small Nova Scotia town comes together in wake of Christmas parade tragedy
YARMOUTH, N.S. - A small Nova Scotia town has come together in grief after a little girl was killed during the annual Santa Claus parade in Yarmouth on Saturday evening. What was supposed to be a fun ...
Nov 25, 2018
Seven candidates vie for ex-premier Philippe Couillard's former seat in byelection
QUEBEC - Seven candidates are in the running for a byelection to replace former Quebec Liberal leader Philippe Couillard in the provincial riding of Roberval. The riding has been vacant since Couillar...
Nov 25, 2018