Category Archives: Canada
Efforts underway to improve internet access in Nunavut
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Several projects are underway to improve internet access in Nunavut, which has long been slow, unreliable and costly for many residents. Quintillion and CanArctic Inuit Networks Inc...
May 11, 2023
Are Canada's green corporate subsidies a new race to the bottom or a path to the top?
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals have made it clear that Canada's road to a greener economy will be paved with billions of dollars in corporate subsidies. Proponents say these may be necessary for Canada...
May 11, 2023
People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier eyes Manitoba seat long held by Tories
OTTAWA - People's Party of Canada Leader Maxime Bernier appears set to announce his candidacy in an coming byelection for a federal seat in Manitoba. A news release says Bernier, a former cabinet mini...
May 10, 2023
Federal, Nunavut governments' Inuit employment plans not meeting promises: arbitrator
IQALUIT, Nunavut - An arbitrator has sided with the organization representing Nunavut Inuit, ruling that plans by the federal and territorial governments to increase Inuit employment in the territory ...
May 10, 2023
B.C.’s Elephant Hill wildfire results in losses of $1B per year: Indigenous report
VANCOUVER - An Indigenous-led report into a massive wildfire nearly six years ago that destroyed more than 100 homes and scorched a vast swath of British Columbia's Interior says the blaze resulted in...
May 10, 2023
'Not on my watch': Seamus O'Regan rejects Liberals' disinformation resolution
OTTAWA - Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan says the Liberal government is keen to tackle the problem of disinformation, but that will not include regulating the use of sources. Members of the federal Lib...
May 10, 2023
Quebec to table bill giving politicians base pay bump of $30,000
QUEBEC - The Quebec government is set to table a bill that would give members of the legislature the highest base salary out of all provincial politicians in the country. The bill is to be introduced ...
May 10, 2023
MPs to vote on House probe into Chinese envoy's alleged targeting of Michael Chong
OTTAWA - The House of Commons is set to vote this afternoon on whether a committee should probe allegations of an intimidation campaign by the Chinese government against Conservative MP Michael Chong....
May 10, 2023
Quebec government rejects Trudeau's immigration plan, fears decline of French
MONTREAL - Canada's plan to increase immigration is stoking fears among Quebec's political class, who say the changes would reduce the province's influence in the country and make it harder to protect...
May 10, 2023
Wildfire evacuation order over for hamlet of Evansburg in west-central Alberta
Officials have lifted an evacuation order for the hamlet of Evansburg, Alta., about 120 kilometres west of Edmonton. Residents were told to leave on May 1 as dry and windy conditions fuelled wildfires...
May 10, 2023