Category Archives: Canada
Peacekeeping mission must start with exit strategy, military officials warn
OTTAWA - Make sure you have a plan to get out before you actually get in. That is one of the main messages of an internal paper that military officials prepared last summer as they considered the chal...
May 11, 2017
Nova Scotia election roundup
HALIFAX - (NSElxn) Nova Scotia’s Progressive Conservatives are promising balanced budgets over four years, but their not saying what would be cut to keep the books balanced. Tory Leader Jamie Ba...
May 11, 2017
Class-action lawsuit initiated over potentially defective cardiac defibrillators
TORONTO - Two Toronto law firms have launched a Canada-wide class-action lawsuit against the manufacturers of implantable defibrillators that can fail with little or no warning because of potentially ...
May 11, 2017
Kazoo, Kaos, Karma: winning names in RCMP 'Name the Puppy' contest
INNISFAIL, Alta. - The puppies have names! The RCMP Police Dog Service Training Centre in Alberta received close to 21,000 entries in their contest to name the first 13 German shepherd puppies to be b...
May 11, 2017
Unwelcome in Toronto, police will march in Cape Breton Pride parade
SYDNEY, N.S. - Cape Breton Regional Police officers will walk in the community’s Pride parade this year, police and parade organizers announced today. Their joint statement says police and Pride...
May 11, 2017
Harper taking a back seat to Ambrose, successor at Tory leadership convention
OTTAWA - Former Conservative party leader and prime minister Stephen Harper is not expected at this month’s leadership convention, party officials said Thursday. Party members will converge in T...
May 11, 2017
UN agency wants Trudeau to push G7 on unaccompanied refugee children
OTTAWA - The United Nations children’s agency is urging Justin Trudeau to press his fellow G7 leaders to do more to help vulnerable and isolated refugee children who face rampant sexual and phys...
May 11, 2017
Anti-abortion flag causes stir in Ottawa after being raised at city hall
OTTAWA - A flag honouring an anti-abortion movement caused a stir in the country’s capital after it was raised at Ottawa City Hall. The city proclaimed Thursday “March for Life Day,”...
May 11, 2017
Federal Liberals to reinforce Trans Mountain pipeline support with B.C.
CALGARY - Canada’s Liberal government will make clear its support of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion when it meets with the newly elected government of B.C., the country’s natural re...
May 11, 2017
Trump trade czar now in place; president says he wants 'massive' NAFTA changes
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump says he’s ready to start a major renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, now that his trade czar has achieved his long-awaited confirma...
May 11, 2017