Category Archives: Canada

A look at New Brunswick's third-party leaders
A personal look at New Brunswick’s third-party leaders: — Green Party Leader David Coon Growing up, New Brunswick Green Party Leader David Coon recalls travelling from his home in Montreal...
Sep 20, 2018

Homeless campers in B.C. provincial park allowed to stay indefinitely
LANGFORD, B.C. - The camping area of a provincial park near Victoria was closed to the public Thursday as a group of homeless people were allowed to stay indefinitely while the British Columbia govern...
Sep 20, 2018

Rohingya human rights worker to call on women foreign ministers for more action
OTTAWA - Razia Sultana has hope for her people, despite the fact tens of thousands have been tortured and raped in what the United Nations has deemed a genocide. Sultana is Rohingya. She works as a la...
Sep 20, 2018

Ottawa to gradually eliminate plastic waste in its operations across the country
HALIFAX - Ottawa used the platform of a G7 ministers meeting Thursday to announce it will gradually eliminate most plastic waste from government operations, as corporate leaders spoke of how they̵...
Sep 20, 2018

Liberal Leader Brian Gallant: From humble roots to N.B. premier's office
Sitting on the Liberal campaign bus with days to go before New Brunswick’s provincial election, Premier Brian Gallant is relaxed and at ease. Despite the apparently tightening race with the Prog...
Sep 20, 2018

Tory Leader Blaine Higgs: Offering gravitas, experience in bid for N.B. premier
Blaine Higgs grew up in the border town of Forest City, N.B., but there really wasn’t much of a border. When customs officers, including his father, left for the day at 5 p.m., Higgs would cross...
Sep 20, 2018

New Brunswick's Liberal premier aims to confound recent electoral history
New Brunswick voters are a fickle lot. No sitting premier has managed to win a second term since 2003, with the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives simply swapping power back and forth. Premier Bri...
Sep 20, 2018
Saskatchewan man no scaredy-cat during stray cat's lofty-perch rescue
FORT QU’APPELLE, Sask. - It was all good fortune when a frightened and bewildered black cat in Fort Qu’Appelle, Sask., was lowered from a tree in which it had spent more than three days in...
Sep 20, 2018

Bellegarde pushes Liberals to save parts of Indigenous chapter in NAFTA deal
OTTAWA - The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations is asking the federal government to consider moving parts of a promised Indigenous chapter to other parts of a renewed North American Free ...
Sep 20, 2018
Man wins five-year battle over pay lost during Prince Edward Island snowstorm
CHARLOTTETOWN - In what might be a moral victory for every Canadian who ever had to go to work in bad weather, a P.E.I. man has won a five-year battle to get 3.5 hours worth of pay after being unable ...
Sep 20, 2018