Category Archives: Canada

Conservative bid sputters for emergency committee meeting on Atwal
OTTAWA - A Conservative bid for an emergency meeting on the Jaspal Atwal affair has fizzled, but political fireworks erupted anew Monday in Parliament over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s much-m...
Feb 26, 2018
Provincial police 'scaling back' search for boy, 3, swept away in flooded river
Ontario Provincial Police say they will “slowly begin scaling back” their search for a missing three-year-old boy who was swept into a swollen river in southwestern Ontario. In a release M...
Feb 26, 2018

Ousted Ontario Tory leader Patrick Brown ends bid to reclaim his former job
TORONTO - Patrick Brown’s quest to lead Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives ended Monday with the Barrie, Ont., politician saying the leadership race had taken a toll on his family and dis...
Feb 26, 2018

Petro boost: Alberta to invest $1B over 8 years on bitumen upgrading projects
EDMONTON - Alberta is investing $1 billion in oilsands bitumen upgrading to get a bigger bang for the buck on its oil. Premier Rachel Notley announced Monday that the money will be used for loan guara...
Feb 26, 2018
Jury finds Manitoba dad guilty of manslaughter in toddler's death
WINNIPEG - A jury has found a Manitoba father guilty of manslaughter in the death of his 21-month-old daughter after hearing how he took no action to keep the toddler safe from her abusive mother. A j...
Feb 26, 2018
Discredited hair-testing program harmed vulnerable families across Ontario: report
TORONTO - A review of nearly 1,300 child welfare cases spanning 25 years has found that a now-discredited hair analysis program in Toronto that tested for drug and alcohol use caused extensive - and p...
Feb 26, 2018

Trump slams Trump: President signs document rebuking own views on trade, Canada
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s views on trade have taken a battering in a newly released report that was not only published by his own White House, but presented under his own signature. The self-r...
Feb 26, 2018

'Room for compromise' with teachers, N.S. premier says after meeting union head
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s premier says there’s “room for us to compromise” in his government’s showdown with the province’s teachers union over education reforms. ...
Feb 26, 2018

Government workers should get apology, compensation for Phoenix mess: NDP
OTTAWA - Two years into the Phoenix pay system “fiasco,” the federal government needs to apologize to the tens of thousands of civil servants who have been living a paycheque nightmare and...
Feb 26, 2018

Grandmother, mother and son killed in triple murder-suicide, family says
A man whose mother, brother and grandmother died in what Ontario provincial police are calling a triple murder-suicide said Monday that his loved ones were killed by a neighbour who had been “st...
Feb 26, 2018