Category Archives: Canada
Toronto-area school board to consider request to fly rainbow flag this summer
A school board west of Toronto is expected to discuss this week whether to allow the rainbow flag to be raised outside district schools during Pride Month this summer. The request to fly the flag in J...
May 07, 2018
Wounded Quebec City mosque worshippers urge Trudeau to ban assault weapons
OTTAWA - Wounded worshippers and family members of those killed in the Quebec City mosque shooting are calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to outlaw assault weapons. In a Monday letter to Trudeau...
May 07, 2018
Ecological integrity to be top priority for Parks Canada: environment minister
OTTAWA - Protecting and conserving the natural environment is Parks Canada’s main job, the federal environment minister concludes in her response to a massive public consultation on the future o...
May 07, 2018
NAFTA watch: Countries meet in possible final push for deal in 2018
WASHINGTON - The NAFTA countries began a days-long negotiating round Monday in what could be their final chance for an agreement this year, before the talks enter electoral hibernation. Any possibilit...
May 07, 2018
Filmmaker receives non-binary birth certificate after legal battle with Ontario
An Ontario-born filmmaker has been issued a non-binary birth certificate after a year-long legal battle with the provincial government and says receiving the document marks a victory for the non-binar...
May 07, 2018
Quebec Tourism Minister Julie Boulet not seeking re-election
TROIS-RIVIERES, Que. - A fifth member of Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard’s Liberal cabinet has announced she won’t seek re-election later this year. Tourism Minister Julie Boulet said Mo...
May 07, 2018
Two B.C. Indigenous leaders plan to speak at Kinder Morgan pipeline AGM
VANCOUVER - Two Indigenous leaders from British Columbia say they will travel to pipeline builder Kinder Morgan’s annual general meeting in Texas this week. Chief Judy Wilson with the Neskonlith...
May 07, 2018
Police drop privacy-breach case against Halifax teen:'No grounds to lay charges'
HALIFAX - Police have dropped the case against a young Halifax man alleged to have breached a Nova Scotia freedom-of-information website, shifting the issue squarely back to whether the province had b...
May 07, 2018
Crown drops sex assault charge against cabbie, saying conviction not realistic
HALIFAX - A sexual assault charge against a Halifax taxi driver has been dropped, after the Crown said there was no realistic prospect of conviction. Farset Mohammad's judge-alone trial, in relation t...
May 07, 2018
Ministers warn 'no free ticket' for Nigerian asylum seekers crossing into Quebec
MONTREAL - Federal Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen will head to Nigeria in the coming weeks amid an influx of nationals from that country seeking asylum in Canada in recent months. Three senior fede...
May 07, 2018