Category Archives: Canada

Protesters camped outside Saskatchewan legislature taking province to court
REGINA - Protesters camped outside the Saskatchewan legislature say they are taking the government to court over six arrests made last month. The people were taken into custody June 18 when Regina pol...
Jul 16, 2018
MPs agree to urgent summer study of asylum seekers surge
OTTAWA - Under mounting pressure from opposition MPs, the House of Commons immigration committee will meet at least two times before early August to study the simmering issue of asylum seekers crossin...
Jul 16, 2018

CRTC invites public, employee comment on misleading telecom sales practices
GATINEAU, Que. - Canadian consumers are being invited to tell a federal regulator about their personal experience with misleading or abusive sales practices at the country’s telecommunications c...
Jul 16, 2018
Memorial site: Alberta apologizes to families for cleaning up plane wreckage
WHITECOURT, Alta. - The province of Alberta is apologizing to the families of three people killed in a plane crash almost 65 years ago after cleaning up the wreckage without warning. A memorial site i...
Jul 16, 2018
Indigenous housing providers raise alarms about future of federal funding deals
OTTAWA - Indigenous social housing providers will soon push the federal government to rethink plans to overhaul their funding arrangements because they worry the Liberal proposals could leave thousand...
Jul 16, 2018
Ontario Tory minister flip-flops on sex-ed curriculum stance
TORONTO - Ontario’s education minister went back and forth Monday on just what students will learn while her government scraps the province’s modernized sex-ed curriculum. Ultimately, Lisa...
Jul 16, 2018

'City of icebergs:' Study says 100s of Arctic glaciers shrinking, disappearing
The statistics in her recently published paper say it all: hundreds of glaciers in Canada’s High Arctic are shrinking and many are likely to disappear completely. But for Adrienne White, seven f...
Jul 16, 2018

Robert Lepage willing to sit down with opponents of upcoming show
MONTREAL - Quebec director Robert Lepage says he is willing to meet with people who are opposed to one of his upcoming shows because it does not include Indigenous performers. About 30 people signed a...
Jul 16, 2018

Trudeau's youth council divided over Trans Mountain pipeline purchase
OTTAWA - Fissures have appeared inside Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s youth council after a group of current and former members publicly urged the Liberal government to reverse its decision to ...
Jul 16, 2018

U.S. hits back with WTO challenge against Canada's retaliatory tariffs
OTTAWA - The United States fired back Monday at the Canadian government’s retaliatory tariffs on American imports by launching a formal challenge with the World Trade Organization. The Trump adm...
Jul 16, 2018