Category Archives: Canada
Manitoba government rejects call to change how organs donated
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has rejected a proposal that would have made all people in the province organ donors unless they specifically requested not to be. Members of the Progressive Conserv...
Oct 31, 2017
Halifax councillor apologizes for using 'inappropriate' racially charged word
HALIFAX - A Halifax councillor is apologizing for using a racially charged word, the most recent snarl in a string of controversial remarks to roil regional council. Coun. Matt Whitman used the word &...
Oct 31, 2017
Federal government will match charity donations for Rohingya refugees
OTTAWA - The federal government said Tuesday it will match private donations made until the end of this month to help ease Bangladesh’s massive burden in coping with refugees fleeing from Myanma...
Oct 31, 2017
Tories say Harper's letter doesn't change their approach to NAFTA
OTTAWA - Conservative foreign affairs critic Erin O’Toole was sitting in the departure lounge at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., last week when his eyes landed on a story he wasn...
Oct 31, 2017
Paris agreement targets leave "alarming gap" to slow climate change: UN report
OTTAWA - Canada has no immediate plans to raise its targets for cutting emissions, despite pressure from the United Nations to step it up or risk the failure of the Paris climate change agreement. In ...
Oct 31, 2017
Caribou herds and habitat continue to decline: federal report
Canada’s woodland caribou herds and the habitat they need continue to decline five years after the provinces agreed to develop strategies to preserve them, a federal study has concluded. And all...
Oct 31, 2017
Budget office predicts higher deficit this year, but sees slow decline coming
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget overseer is predicting a budget deficit in the current fiscal year that’s almost $2 billion higher than was forecast in the government’s fall fiscal updat...
Oct 31, 2017
Judge fines ThyssenKrupp $500K for elevator violations after guilty plea
TORONTO - One of the country’s pre-eminent elevator companies has been fined $500,000 for five violations of Ontario’s safety rules. ThyssenKrupp had pleaded guilty to the offences in Onta...
Oct 31, 2017
Prisons failing mentally ill, especially women, federal ombudsman says
OTTAWA - Canada’s prison service must find alternatives to locking up inmates, especially women, with serious mental illness, says the federal correctional ombudsman. The Correctional Service of...
Oct 31, 2017
Advocate calls for increased punitive damages in deaths of indigenous women
MEMBERTOU, N.S. - Canada’s legal system fails to attach enough value to the loss of an Indigenous woman’s life, according to an advocate for the family of a Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq woman...
Oct 31, 2017