Category Archives: Canada
Trudeau visits Vimy ahead of world leaders gathering to mark historic armistice
VIMY RIDGE, France - The iconic monument at Vimy Ridge served Saturday as a reminder of Canadians’ wartime sacrifice, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made another visit to the memorial one day ...
Nov 09, 2018
Scheer should have booted Clement from caucus right away: Tory consultant
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer shouldn’t have taken Tony Clement at his word that he’d only been involved in one improper online exchange, a prominent conservative political co...
Nov 09, 2018
Liberals again delay firearm marking regulations despite campaign promise
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is again delaying implementation of firearm-marking regulations intended to help police trace guns used in crimes - despite a 2015 campaign pledge to immediately enact ...
Nov 09, 2018
Attempt to appeal '60s Scoop settlement tossed for 'extreme' lack of evidence
TORONTO - A last-ditch effort to challenge the court-approved settlement of the ’60s Scoop class action failed Friday when a judge tossed the novel attempt as lacking any substance. In his decis...
Nov 09, 2018
Walk-in doctors want equal pay but group says relationship with patients key
VANCOUVER - Doctors at over 300 walk-in clinics in British Columbia want fair payment for their work compared with those in full family practice, says the head of an association that’s rallying ...
Nov 09, 2018
New gas plants should pay carbon levy on all emissions by 2030, advocates say
OTTAWA - Climate-change advocates and renewable-fuel producers want Ottawa to make sure new natural-gas power plants have to pay a price for every ounce of their greenhouse-gas emissions by 2030. Cana...
Nov 09, 2018
Homeless treasure hunter gets windfall from Bambi art found in Edmonton garbage
EDMONTON - Alexander Archbold knew the homeless man as a friendly, kind guy who sometimes came into his antique shop to sell various trinkets and treasures dug out of dumpsters. Whether Archbold wante...
Nov 09, 2018
White supremacist disavowed by UCP and federal Tories joined Bernier's party
OTTAWA - An alleged white supremacist who was kicked out of Alberta’s United Conservative Party found a new political home in Maxime Bernier’s fledgling People’s Party of Canada - at...
Nov 09, 2018
Assisted-dying activist remembered at Halifax 'celebration of life'
HALIFAX - Hundreds of people gathered Friday afternoon to remember a terminally ill Halifax woman whose fight to loosen assisted dying laws captured national attention as she dispensed wisdom about li...
Nov 09, 2018
Atheist United Church minister keeps her job; 'heresy trial' called off
TORONTO - A United Church minister who had faced an unprecedented ecclesiastical court hearing over her professed atheism is no longer in danger of a defrocking after the two sides reached an agreemen...
Nov 09, 2018