Category Archives: Canada
G7 plastics charter could be like Paris agreement for the oceans, says McKenna
OTTAWA - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the plastics charter she is negotiating with other G7 nations ahead of next month’s leaders’ summit in Quebec could be billed as a Pari...
May 10, 2018
Alberta premier confident pipeline talks will succeed by May 31 deadline
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she’s confident talks aimed at getting construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion back on track will be successful before a May 31 deadli...
May 10, 2018
Libs on Harper praising Trump on Iran deal: He's entitled to his opinion
WASHINGTON - The Trudeau government is playing down its difference of opinion with former prime minister Stephen Harper over U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to abandon the Iran nuclear de...
May 10, 2018
Search warrants released in breach of Nova Scotia freedom-of-information website
HALIFAX - Search warrants say a Nova Scotia civil servant told police somebody “hacked” into the province’s freedom-of-information website in a case investigators later dropped becau...
May 10, 2018
WestJet pilots vow not to disrupt long weekend as a goodwill gesture
WestJet pilots have committed to not disrupting passenger travel plans over the Victoria Day long weekend despite voting overwhelmingly to give its union a strike mandate. The Air Line Pilots Associat...
May 10, 2018
New northern Ontario riding buoys francophones: 'Still fighting for our rights'
KAPUSKASING, Ont. - The heart of la francophonie in small town northern Ontario is beating a little faster these days as a newly minted riding gets set to elect its first representative to the legisla...
May 10, 2018
Two Ontario police forces investigating alleged privacy breaches
TORONTO - The Toronto and Peel regional police services say they are investigating two incidents Ontario’s privacy commissioner has called potential privacy breaches involving police. Toronto po...
May 10, 2018
Federal and Quebec governments fund aluminum smelting breakthrough
SAGUENAY, Que. - Aluminum giants Alcoa Inc. and Rio Tinto Group are teaming up with Apple Inc. and the federal and Quebec governments to commercialize the world’s first carbon-free aluminum smel...
May 10, 2018
RCMP widens investigation in B.C.'s Okanagan after fatal ferry shooting
SURREY, B.C. - The RCMP are examining possible links between two violent incidents in British Columbia’s Okanagan less than 24 hours before a deadly police-involved shooting Tuesday on Vancouver...
May 10, 2018
Man apologizes for taping his female colleagues at Newfoundland gym
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A gym employee who secretly recorded female colleagues while they changed apologized to the victims Thursday. Alex Seymour, 24, pleaded guilty to filming two women without the...
May 10, 2018