Category Archives: Canada

Senate, House won't move out of Centre Block until end of year, reno delayed
OTTAWA - Parliament Hill’s iconic Centre Block won’t be shutting down this summer, delaying the start of a badly needed renovation until at least next year. Senators and MPs decided Thursd...
Jun 14, 2018

Agriculture Minister and US Agriculture Secretary to meet in P.E.I. barn
MIDGELL, P.E.I. - Amid escalating trade tensions between Canada and the United States, Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay is throwing open his barn door to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perd...
Jun 14, 2018
Sexual abuse at Canadian schools largely perpetrated by employees: report
WINNIPEG - The Canadian Centre for Child Protection is calling for more transparency after a new report found school employees were responsible for hundreds of alleged sexual offences involving studen...
Jun 14, 2018
British Columbia or East Africa? Court to help decide venue of human-rights case
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will help decide whether a human-rights lawsuit against a Canadian mining company should be heard in British Columbia or Eritrea. The high court has agreed to hear...
Jun 14, 2018

'A death blow': Tariff threat looms large in the heart of Canada's auto industry
WINDSOR, Ont. - Mike Malott has survived massive turmoil during his nearly 20 years as an automotive worker here in the heart of the Canadian industry - but now that his livelihood is in the crosshair...
Jun 14, 2018

Canada faces new trade tests from Italy as feds battle challenges on many fronts
OTTAWA - Add Italy to the growing list of Canada’s trade headaches. Italy’s agriculture minister said his country’s new government won’t ratify the Canada-European Union free t...
Jun 14, 2018
Judge declares three 'polyamorous' adults legal parents of N.L. child
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - In what is believed to be a legal first in Canada, a court in Newfoundland and Labrador has recognized three unmarried adults as the legal parents of a child born within their...
Jun 14, 2018
Baloney Meter: Would home cultivation of pot displace black market?
OTTAWA - “The government has been clear that provinces and territories are able to make additional restrictions on personal cultivation but that it is critically important to permit personal cul...
Jun 14, 2018

Cold front passing through amid warm temperatures intensified Ontario storm
TORONTO - Environment Canada says a storm that toppled trees and downed power lines across southern Ontario on Wednesday became more powerful than expected because of the time of day at which it occur...
Jun 14, 2018

#BuyCanadian: Pocketbook patriotism takes off amid U.S. trade tensions
Bonnie Hallman of Winnipeg had been booked to board a Disney cruise next summer to bask in the untamed wilderness of Alaska, which she had longed to see since flipping through copies of the state̵...
Jun 14, 2018