Category Archives: Canada
Parents hopeful about federal budget funding for no-fly list fix
OTTAWA - Parents of children who keep running into no-fly list snags at the airport say they have new hope the problem will be addressed in the coming federal budget. A representative of the group kno...
Feb 19, 2018
Manitoba Independent MLA Steven Fletcher wants to be Conservative MP again
WINNIPEG - A former federal Conservative MP who now sits as an Independent member of the Manitoba legislature says he’s making another run for federal politics. Steven Fletcher announced Monday ...
Feb 19, 2018
Woman says 10 dogs euthanized to comply with Yukon Supreme Court order
WHITEHORSE - The owner of a Yukon rescue operation says 10 dogs have been euthanized because no other option existed, but a lawyer maintains the animals should have been surrendered in compliance with...
Feb 19, 2018

Budget to focus on middle class as fewer Canadians identify as middle class
OTTAWA - Computer programmer David Galvin should be the quintessential beneficiary of next week's federal budget, which is expected to continue the Liberals’ persistent rhetoric and focus on bol...
Feb 19, 2018

Competition Bureau says its policies are adequate to deal with big data dangers
OTTAWA - Canada’s competition regulator says it’s not the size of the data, but the size of the deception that it must guard against as it considers protecting innovation and competition i...
Feb 19, 2018
Push to repeal bylaw allowing stores north of Toronto to open on Family Day
Labour groups and some politicians are pushing to repeal a bylaw that allows retailers north of Toronto to stay open on holidays such as Family Day. Councillors in York Region, which consists of nine ...
Feb 19, 2018
Shot fired at home on rural property west of Battleford in Saskatchewan
BATTLEFORD, Sask. - Mounties in Saskatchewan are investigating a break-in on a rural property where a gunshot was fired at a home. RCMP said officers were dispatched to the property west of Battleford...
Feb 19, 2018

'60s Scoop group educates survivors, pushes rejection of federal settlement
OTTAWA - Dozens of people gathered in an Ottawa community centre Monday to learn more about the federal government's proposed multimillion-dollar settlement for survivors of the ’60s Scoop - and...
Feb 19, 2018

Prison tattoo and needle programs would help curb hepatitis: internal memo
OTTAWA - Setting up tattoo parlours and needle-exchange programs in penitentiaries would help reduce the spread of hepatitis C, the federal prison service has told the Trudeau government. A Correction...
Feb 19, 2018

Liberals looking at creating use-it-or-lose-it leave for fathers, Trudeau says
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is raising the idea of creating a use-it-or-lose-it, funded leave for new dads, doing so days before he unveils a spending blueprint that has been the focus of l...
Feb 19, 2018