Category Archives: Canada
Trudeau says Quebec cannabis plan leaves opening for organized crime
YEREVAN, Armenia - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suggested Saturday morning the incoming Quebec government’s plan to raise the legal age for smoking cannabis to 21 could leave an opening for org...
Oct 13, 2018
New pipeline review not going far enough out to sea, environment group says
OTTAWA - The back-to-the-drawing board environmental review of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project will assess the impact of increased oil tanker traffic out to about 12 nautical miles from ...
Oct 12, 2018
NEB sets Trans Mountain hearings schedule to meet February deadline
CALGARY - The National Energy Board has released a schedule that it says will allow it to reconsider its approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project in time to meet a Feb. 22 federal gov...
Oct 12, 2018
'This is nothing new for us:' Alberta RCMP say they're ready for legal cannabis
EDMONTON - Alberta RCMP say Mounties will be ready when recreational cannabis becomes legal in Canada on Wednesday. Chief Supt. Brad Mueller said officers will use tried and true investigative techniq...
Oct 12, 2018
How long should police officers abstain from pot? Depends whom you ask
TORONTO - Twenty-eight days. That’s how long members of the RCMP and Toronto police have been ordered to abstain from smoking or vaping recreational pot before reporting for duty. Calgary police...
Oct 12, 2018
Federal board must rethink compensation for employee who was sexually assaulted
OTTAWA - The board responsible for hearing grievances by federal government workers must reconsider a decision after the Federal Court of Appeal found it downplayed a sexual assault as a “prank,...
Oct 12, 2018
10 pricey gifts Justin Trudeau and his family have received over the last year
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regularly receives lavish gifts from world leaders and dignitaries, usually as a matter of protocol. But a growing trend among freebies to the prime minister and...
Oct 12, 2018
Five Alberta high school football players hurt in crash at highway intersection
RAYMOND, Alta. - Five players with a high school football team are being treated for injuries in hospitals following a collision at a rural highway intersection in southeastern Alberta. Raymond RCMP s...
Oct 12, 2018
After 7 years as a blight, rusting ship removed from Beauharnois waterfront
BEAUHARNOIS, Que. - For seven years, the Kathryn Spirit loomed over the waterfront in Beauharnois, a rusting, abandoned cargo ship that to the town’s dismay became one of its most identifiable f...
Oct 12, 2018
Judge says it's up to B.C. government to fund translator for murdered teen's mom
VANCOUVER - The mother of a 13-year-old girl found murdered in a park in Burnaby, B.C., has requested a Mandarin translator so she can understand court proceedings, and a judge has recommended the pro...
Oct 12, 2018