Category Archives: Canada
Green party signs helping Liberals in B.C. led to violation: elections watchdog
OTTAWA - The federal elections watchdog says an unofficial partnership between the Greens and Liberals in a B.C. riding aimed at unseating a Conservative incumbent in the 2015 election led to an ̶...
May 10, 2018
Feds aim to close gap by unveiling victims' bill of rights for military cases
OTTAWA - The federal government is promising to close what some consider significant and long-standing gaps within the country’s military court system with a new declaration of the rights of vic...
May 10, 2018
Grain handling group says CP Rail unfairly sharing blame for transport ills
CALGARY - The onus for improving grain transportation in Canada is not just on the railways, but will require investment from the “bookends” of the system - the elevators that load the gra...
May 10, 2018
Canada Summer jobs controversy fuels anti-abortion movement: activists
OTTAWA - Anti-abortion activists say the controversy surrounding Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s changes to the Canada Summer Jobs program has given added momentum to their cause. Thousands of d...
May 10, 2018
No armchair quarterbacks: Lethbridge police chief wants context of racist video
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - A southern Alberta police chief is urging people not to leap to conclusions about how officers handled a racist confrontation at a local Denny’s last month. “It’s...
May 10, 2018
Placing live crabs on Toronto subway seats is a 'shellfish' act, TTC says
TORONTO - The Toronto Transit Commission is calling it a “shellfish” act. A picture posted on Facebook shows live crabs placed on seats on a Toronto subway car. The poster wrote that a man...
May 10, 2018
Bains describes being asked to remove turban by U.S. airport security
TORONTO - Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains says he was asked to remove his turban during an “awkward” incident at a checkpoint in the Detroit airport a year ago and was only allowed to pr...
May 10, 2018
Freeland gets briefing from U.S. lawmakers on tight window for passing NAFTA
WASHINGTON - Canada’s foreign minister got a detailed explanation Thursday about why there might only be a few days left to get a NAFTA agreement in 2018. Chrystia Freeland attended a discussion...
May 10, 2018
B.C. report on wildfires, floods recommends new disaster management approach
VICTORIA - An independent review of British Columbia’s response to last year’s wildfires and flooding recommends fighting fire with fire to protect communities and future forests. The repo...
May 10, 2018
B.C. woman who abused sick senior in care home sentenced to 60 days in jail
PORT COQUITLAM, B.C. - A British Columbia caregiver who pleaded guilty to assaulting a partially paralyzed 88-year-old woman suffering from Alzheimer’s disease has been sentenced to 60 days in j...
May 10, 2018