Category Archives: Canada
Edmonton Humane Society brings in third party to look into cats left behind
EDMONTON - The Edmonton Humane Society says it has asked a third party to look into how three cats in the organization’s care could have been unknowingly left in a vehicle for more than three we...
Jun 29, 2018
Ontario Premier Doug Ford's Tory cabinet criticized for lack of diversity
TORONTO - Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government had barely been in power for an hour Friday before it was under attack about the perceived lack of diversity in its cabinet. Shortly befor...
Jun 29, 2018

Health ministers meeting in Winnipeg want national pharmacare, but who pays?
WINNIPEG - Canada’s health ministers say they are moving closer to a national pharmacare program, but questions remain over who will pay for it and how broad it will be. After meeting with her p...
Jun 29, 2018
Quebec weighing legal options as judge temporarily suspends face-covering law
NEW YORK - The Quebec government will wait for its lawyers to study a court decision this week that temporarily suspended a law banning people from covering their faces when receiving or giving a publ...
Jun 29, 2018
A list of the new members named by Rideau Hall to the Order of Canada
OTTAWA - The Order of Canada is getting 99 new members in 2018. Here’s a list: Companions of the Order Roberta Bondar, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., astronaut, educator. Beverley McLachlin, Ottawa, lo...
Jun 29, 2018
Order of Canada recipients include outspoken critics of Trudeau government
OTTAWA - He was ripped from his family as a child and placed in a residential school. He survived abuse at the school and later went on to become a lifelong advocate for the rights of Indigenous Peopl...
Jun 29, 2018
Tariffs Q&A: Nine things to know about Canada's retaliatory tariffs
The Canadian government has responded to the Trump administration’s decision to apply tariffs on steel and aluminum by imposing retaliatory tariffs effective Sunday on $16.6 billion worth of Ame...
Jun 29, 2018
Ottawa unveils $9M fund to help black youth overcome 'unique challenges'
The Trudeau government unveiled a $9-million fund Friday that it says aims to help black youth fully and equally participate in Canadian society. The money was unveiled at news conferences in Montreal...
Jun 29, 2018
Ontario man charged with threatening Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
WINDSOR, Ont. - A 60-year-old Ontario man has been charged with uttering threats against Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Windsor police say an incident occurred on Tuesday and they later charged Royce ...
Jun 29, 2018

Vancouver officer apologizes for kissing girl, woman at sentencing hearing
SURREY, B.C. - A former Vancouver police detective publicly apologized for kissing and betraying the trust of a teenage girl and a 21-year-old woman at his sentencing hearing on Friday. James Fisher t...
Jun 29, 2018