Category Archives: Canada
American lawyers gather to ponder Trump's NAFTA options: Can he cancel it alone?
WASHINGTON - Legal experts huddled together at a recent conference to ponder a question that could go from being a distant hypothetical to one that dominates Canada-U.S.-Mexico relations: can an Ameri...
Nov 12, 2017
Adults with autism want to give more input on services catering to community
TORONTO - A growing number of Canadian businesses are providing programs and services geared toward autistic people, but some adult members of their target audience want more of a say on how the offer...
Nov 12, 2017
Tuked away no more: Canada's first permanent road to Arctic coast to open
TUKTOYAKTUK, N.W.T. - At 6 a.m. on Wednesday, in the arctic cold and darkness of the Mackenzie Delta, Darrel Nasogaluak will fire up his vehicle and head out on Canada’s newest and most exotic r...
Nov 12, 2017
Toronto's Bloor bike lanes heralded but city lags behind other Canadian centres
TORONTO - When a stretch of separated bicycle lanes along a major thoroughfare in Toronto was recently made permanent, cyclists rejoiced and local politicians heralded the move as a major step forward...
Nov 12, 2017
Canada's push to eliminate coal power takes on U.S. clean coal in Bonn
OTTAWA - Climate change talks in Germany are headed for a collision course on coal this week - and Canada is right in the middle of it. Environment Minister Catherine McKenna is arriving today in Bonn...
Nov 12, 2017
B.C. grapples with future of Site C, as Premier Horgan sends ministers north
VICTORIA - The fate of the largest public project in British Columbia’s history, the Site C hydroelectric dam, will be the focus of intense scrutiny this week as provincial cabinet ministers tra...
Nov 12, 2017
Trudeau in Manila to pursue deeper trade, security ties in Asia-Pacific
MANILA, Philippines - Justin Trudeau landed in the Philippines on Sunday with the goal of raising Canada’s profile in the Asia-Pacific region, especially on security issues and trade. This week,...
Nov 11, 2017
No winning ticket for Saturday night's $7 million Lotto 649 jackpot
TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $7 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in Atlantic Canada. Th...
Nov 11, 2017
Ottawa responds to NAFTA challenge that it's not tough on tailings pond leaks
EDMONTON - The Canadian government says it lacked the scientific evidence to determine if oilsands tailings ponds were leaking into waterways and hurting fish. But the government says it continues to ...
Nov 11, 2017
How Canada turned to Mexico to fend off TPP pressure from Japan, Australia
DANANG, Vietnam - From the outside, it looked like yet another bilateral meeting between Justin Trudeau and his continental ally, Enrique Pena Nieto, on the sidelines of yet another leaders’ sum...
Nov 11, 2017