Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Feb. 14 --- TRUDEAU TO LAY OUT VISION FOR INDIGENOUS RIGHTS: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his Liberal government plans to overhaul the way Ottawa rel...

VANDERHOOF, B.C. - A logging truck driver in British Columbia was taken by surprise when he saw four legs sticking out of the snow off the side of a road. Wayne Rowley, 54, said he was driving down a ...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley put her 19-member task force to work Wednesday, tasked with continuing to take the fight to B.C. over the Trans Mountain oil pipeline. “We’re going...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has nominated government lawyer Caroline Maynard to be Canada’s new information commissioner. Maynard, currently the interim chairperson and chief executiv...

VICTORIA - Political hurdles in the form of delays, bans and tolls have been raised in British Columbia in the weeks since the province served notice that it would temporarily ban expanded shipments o...

STRATFORD, P.E.I. - The premier of P.E.I. says the damage caused by vandals who recently spray-painted a local church with homophobic slogans is sickening. Wade MacLauchlan posted a brief message on T...

OTTAWA - Conservative senators are balking at an attempt to speed up consideration of a bill to legalize recreational marijuana, which the Trudeau government hopes to have in place this July. Sen. Lar...

VANCOUVER - Researchers studying the activity of whales off British Columbia’s coast have had an unusual and “surreal” encounter with a sperm whale. Jared Towers is part of a Fisheri...

TORONTO - As the contenders to lead Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives prepare to face off in public for the first time, experts say Thursday’s debate brings a crucial opportunity for can...

OTTAWA - Excerpts from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s speech Wednesday on his Liberal government’s plans for a new legislative framework for relations with Indigenous people: ___ “I...