Category Archives: Canada
With looming NAFTA deadline and intensive talks, Freeland postpones UN speech
WASHINGTON - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland postponed her marquee United Nations speech Saturday as negotiators on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border continued their full-court press for...
Sep 29, 2018
New Democrats try to bolster donations with fundraising matching strategy
OTTAWA - The federal New Democrats are pushing their supporters to get in on what’s being billed as a donation matching program as the party looks to fill its coffers ahead of a looming contribu...
Sep 29, 2018
Health Canada issues advisory about potentially faulty EpiPens
OTTAWA - Health Canada is warning that some EpiPens may not slide out of their tubes easily, possibly delaying emergency treatment. The agency says it was advised by Pfizer Canada about the issue, whi...
Sep 29, 2018
Ontario to increase mercury disability payments to affected First Nations
TORONTO - The Ontario government says it is moving to ensure people who receive mercury disability payments are properly compensated by retroactively indexing payments to the rate of inflation. The go...
Sep 28, 2018
Montreal-area MP Nicola Di Iorio mulling political future
OTTAWA - Montreal-area MP Nicola Di Iorio says he is again mulling his political future. On Thursday, Liberal whip Mark Holland announced that Di Iorio had contacted the party to confirm his political...
Sep 28, 2018
Minister urged to press Jamaica over wage deductions of migrant workers in Canada
OTTAWA - The federal labour minister was advised to fire back at a Carribean country late last year ahead of a planned meeting to discuss changes to how much temporary foreign workers in Canada were e...
Sep 28, 2018
Indigenous groups say Quebec police protest tactic a form of intimidation
MONTREAL - A controversial red badge worn by provincial police officers expressing solidarity with colleagues alleged to have abused Indigenous women drew a cautious response this week from Quebec pol...
Sep 28, 2018
Ontario seeks extension on overdose prevention sites as it decides fate of facilities
TORONTO - The Ontario government is asking Ottawa to extend an exemption that would allow overdose prevention sites to continue operating in the province while it decides the fate of the facilities. T...
Sep 28, 2018
Experts say 'the talk' for boys needs to change in the #MeToo era
It’s a family exercise so universally uncomfortable, neither parents nor children dare speak its subject by name: having “the talk.” But nearly one year into the #MeToo movement, the...
Sep 28, 2018
NAFTA talks intensify as Freeland, negotiators push hard for breakthrough
OTTAWA - Sources say Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and her team of negotiators are engaged in an intensive, late-stage effort to get Canada back into a trilateral trade deal with the Unit...
Sep 28, 2018