Category Archives: Canada
Green programs tied to cap and trade in limbo as Ford vows to scrap carbon pricing
TORONTO - With Ontario’s cap-and-trade system headed for the chopping block, several green initiatives and projects funded by the program are also on their way out - and some environmental advoc...
Jun 20, 2018

Canada's first national accessibility law tabled in Ottawa
Canadians with disabilities felt a surge of tempered optimism on Wednesday as they watched Canada table its first piece of federal legislation aimed at improving accessibility for people with disabili...
Jun 20, 2018
Winemaker Norman Hardie denies some misconduct allegations, says "many" are true
WELLINGTON, Ont. - Ontario winemaker Norman Hardie is disputing parts of a report detailing accusations of sexual misconduct against him, while admitting that “many” of the allegations are...
Jun 20, 2018

Progress made in modernizing NAFTA will make it easier to trade, says Freeland
MONTREAL - Progress made in negotiations to modernize NAFTA aren’t getting much attention but they will make it easier for companies to conduct trilateral trade, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrysti...
Jun 20, 2018

Death of man on Toronto subway tracks puts platform barriers in spotlight
Toronto’s subway operator has reiterated its long-standing desire to build platform barriers that could prevent deaths such as one this week where a 73-year-old man was killed after allegedly be...
Jun 20, 2018
Spy agency ended right-wing probe just months before Quebec mosque shooting
OTTAWA - Canada’s spy agency ended its investigation of right-wing extremism 10 months before a gunman killed six worshippers at a Quebec City mosque, a new report reveals. The federal spy watch...
Jun 20, 2018
CSIS risks privacy of innocent people despite scathing court ruling: watchdog
OTTAWA - The Canadian Security Intelligence Service has failed to ensure it doesn’t illegally hold on to sensitive information about innocent people, a federal spy watchdog says. In a report mad...
Jun 20, 2018

Federal government and First Nations to approve B.C. fish farms: province
VICTORIA - Fish farmers in British Columbia have four years to show their open-net operations don’t harm wild salmon and to get approval from First Nations to locate them in their territories as...
Jun 20, 2018

Police in B.C. search for family from Oregon after car found abandoned
DEASE LAKE, B.C. - Police in British Columbia say they are searching for a couple and their two young children after a car with Oregon licence plates was found near a highway in the community of Dease...
Jun 20, 2018

Quebec premier outlines plan to push back against protectionist U.S. policies
Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard will be heading to the United States next week to push back against U.S. President Donald Trump’s protectionist trade policies. Couillard told reporters Wednesd...
Jun 20, 2018