Category Archives: Canada
Safety board chair says more needs to be done five years after Lac-Megantic
OTTAWA - The head of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada says much has been accomplished five years after the Lac-Megantic train derailment in which 47 people were killed, but more remains to be...
Jul 04, 2018
Travellers warned about measles from infected passenger who landed in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - An alert has been issued about the potential spread of measles from an infected passenger who travelled to Vancouver from India on two flights. The BC Centre for Disease Control says the p...
Jul 04, 2018
RCMP remove pipeline protesters from Vancouver bridge
VANCOUVER - Greenpeace Canada says a protest that saw a dozen protesters dangling from a Vancouver bridge to block a tanker carrying crude oil from the Trans Mountain pipeline ended Wednesday night. T...
Jul 04, 2018
Conservatives vanquished governing Liberals in 2017 fundraising race
OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives blew past their governing Liberal rivals in last year’s annual fundraising race - in donors as well as dollars. Annual financial reports published on the Elect...
Jul 04, 2018
Attawapiskat First Nation chief launches personal war on illegal drugs
The chief of Attawapiskat First Nation has launched a personal war on illegal drugs because he says he is tired of waiting for others to deal with a problem that is destroying his small community in n...
Jul 04, 2018
WestJet reviewing baggage policy after customer calls it discriminatory
TORONTO - WestJet says it is reviewing its baggage policy after a customer complained that it discriminated against travellers from certain countries. The airline currently has a policy that prevents ...
Jul 04, 2018
Former Winnipeg ballet students allege intimate photos sold by photographer
TORONTO - A judge has ruled that a class-action lawsuit can proceed against the Royal Winnipeg Ballet and a photographer who is alleged to have taken intimate photos of students. Lawyer Margaret Wadde...
Jul 04, 2018
Conservative leader rejected caucus calls to kick Maxime Bernier from caucus
OTTAWA - A Conservative MP says he wanted Andrew Scheer to kick the openly defiant Maxime Bernier out of the federal caucus last month, but the Tory leader refused, insisting that his outspoken former...
Jul 04, 2018
American border patrol agents stopping and boarding Canadian vessels: spokesman
GRAND MANAN, N.B. - A little-known cross-border dispute that has simmered between Canada and the United States since the late 1700s is now approaching the boiling point. In the past two weeks, at leas...
Jul 04, 2018
Ontario cancelling cap and trade akin to pulling out of climate framework: feds
OTTAWA - The federal government is interpreting Ontario’s cancellation of its cap-and-trade program as equivalent to withdrawing from Ottawa’s national climate change framework - and is re...
Jul 04, 2018