Category Archives: Canada
Changes to truck-driver training gaining traction: industry group
REGINA - The head of a national trucking group says it’s encouraging that more provinces are seeing the need for mandatory standardized training for drivers. There are no minimum training requir...
Apr 27, 2018
NAFTA: Ministers head home from negotiations, with uncertainty looming
WASHINGTON - The politicians leading the NAFTA negotiations left Washington without a deal on Friday, under a cloud of question marks about the continental trading relationship. Canada’s Chrysti...
Apr 27, 2018
Servers used by Islamic State propaganda sites seized in Canada, Europe, US
PARIS - Police in Europe, the United States and Canada have seized servers and data from Islamic State propaganda outlets in a multi-country operation aimed at tracking down radicals and crimping the ...
Apr 27, 2018
W7 summit leaders end conference hoping their recommendations not ignored by G7
OTTAWA - Feminist leaders from around the world who met this week in Ottawa say they have many nuanced ideas to address gender discrimination and inequality, but some are not convinced their recommend...
Apr 27, 2018
Quebec cabinet minister Martin Coiteux won't seek re-election
MONTREAL - Martin Coiteux, a pillar of Premier Philippe Couillard’s Quebec Liberal government, won’t seek another mandate later this year, saying Friday the reasons are strictly personal. ...
Apr 27, 2018
Quebec woman charged with second-degree murder in two-year-old daughter's death
QUEBEC - A Quebec City mother was formally charged Friday with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of her two-year-old daughter, whose body was found in a garbage can. Audrey Gagnon, 23, appear...
Apr 27, 2018
Nova Scotia launches cleanup process for Boat Harbour wastewater lagoons
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s environment minister has released new details of the long-awaited cleanup of Boat Harbour, calling the toxic lagoon one of the worst examples of environmental racism in t...
Apr 27, 2018
Fast-rising water flooding parts of Fredericton: 'Time to get prepared'
FREDERICTON - Crews packed sandbags around the New Brunswick legislature Friday as flood waters rose fast in the capital, submerging neighbourhoods along the St. John River and forcing a handful of re...
Apr 27, 2018
Sailboat captain jailed 13 years for smuggling cocaine into Nova Scotia
HALIFAX - A potential payoff of more than $500,000 motivated a Canadian sailboat captain to smuggle 250 kilograms of cocaine into Nova Scotia from a small Caribbean island, a judge said Friday as he s...
Apr 27, 2018
Lobster fishery restrictions imposed to safeguard access to U.S. market: LeBlanc
MONCTON, N.B. - The federal fisheries minister made his case Friday to lobster fishermen that rules aimed at protecting the endangered right whale should remain - with the alternative being a “d...
Apr 27, 2018