Category Archives: Canada
Territories ask Liberals to redo funding, plans to meet housing needs in North
OTTAWA - Territorial governments are pressing the Trudeau government to rejig how much each will receive through the national housing strategy, saying the funding falls well short of meeting housing n...
May 03, 2018
United Conservative Party denied permission to march in Edmonton Pride parade
Edmonton’s Pride festival has rejected an application by Alberta’s Opposition United Conservative Party to participate in its parade. The Edmonton Pride Festival Society says the party did...
May 03, 2018
Pot plan proceeding apace, Trudeau insists, despite calls for delay
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau isn’t backing down from his government’s much-maligned timeline for legalizing marijuana, despite a growing chorus of calls from senators, Indigenous...
May 03, 2018
Sohi unfazed by watchdog report showing provinces spend less as feds spend more
OTTAWA - Infrastructure Minister Amarjeet Sohi says he is not concerned by a recent report that shows provinces are spending less on new roads, bridges and water systems, even as the federal governmen...
May 03, 2018
Q&A with Lac Seul First Nation Chief Clifford Bull, candidate in northern riding
FRENCHMAN’S HEAD, Ont. - Kiiwetinoong is one of two new northern Ontario ridings and the only one in the province with an Indigenous majority. It is home to about 32,000 people in four municipal...
May 03, 2018
Alberta Health Services expands pork recall due to possible E. coli bacteria
EDMONTON - Alberta Health Services is expanding a pork recall after an E. coli outbreak sickened 37 people - including 11 patients who were hospitalized and one who likely died from the bacteria. Offi...
May 03, 2018
Kiiwetinoong: Vast new northern Ontario riding fledges wings as vote looms
SIOUX LOOKOUT, Ont. - From the shadows of the hill in the south on which the Ojibwa once watched for the invading Sioux, to the frozen mouth of the almost 1,000-kilometre-long majestic Severn River in...
May 03, 2018
Canada Post Group reports 2017 profit up as parcel business swells
OTTAWA - The Canada Post Group of Companies reported a profit of $144 million for 2017, up from $81 million in 2016, as its parcel business grew amid the popularity of online shopping. The improved pr...
May 03, 2018
Journalist Justin Brake of The Independent in NL wins press freedom award
OTTAWA - Justin Brake, a journalist who faces civil and criminal charges over his reporting about the impact of the Muskrat Falls hydro project on Indigenous people, has won the 20th annual Press Free...
May 03, 2018
Under pressure over single $7B budget vote, Liberals make a tweak
OTTAWA - The federal government is announcing a slight change to its plan to streamline the spending-approval process into a single $7-billion vote after complaints earlier this week from the parliame...
May 03, 2018