Category Archives: Canada

Municipal elections across B.C., with major battles in Vancouver, Surrey expected
Voters in British Columbia's cities, towns and villages head to the polls today to cast their verdict on local candidates who made big promises this fall to tackle the huge issues confronting almost e...
Oct 15, 2022

Actor, athlete Johnny Issaluk stripped of Order of Canada
OTTAWA - Gov. Gen. Mary Simon has stripped actor and athlete Johnny Issaluk of the Order of Canada. A regulatory notice being published Saturday says Issaluk's appointment was terminated Aug. 31. An a...
Oct 14, 2022

Quebec election: Judge rejects request by Conservatives for recount in Beauce-Nord
SAINT-JOSEPH-DE-BEAUCE, Que. - A Quebec Superior Court judge has rejected a request by the Conservative Party of Quebec to have a recount in a Quebec City-area riding it lost by a slim margin to the C...
Oct 14, 2022

Quebec appeals court overturns sex assault acquittal because ruling relied on 'myths'
MONTREAL - The Quebec Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial in a sexual assault case after concluding that the lower court judge based his ruling on "myths, prejudices or generalizations." The recen...
Oct 14, 2022

Absence of former CFL running back in person delays sentencing hearing for voyeurism
CALGARY - The sentencing hearing for a former CFL running back who pleaded guilty to voyeurism after he filmed a consensual sexual encounter without the woman's permission has been delayed because he ...
Oct 14, 2022

Quebec youth care agency not serious about fighting racism: Indigenous advocate
MONTREAL - An advocate for Indigenous people says a Montreal-based child and family services agency isn't serious about improving care for Indigenous youth. Nakuset, director of the Native Women's She...
Oct 14, 2022

Canada leading, not lagging, global green energy transition, but more to do: Freeland
WASHINGTON - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada is leading, not lagging, the global shift towards green energy in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Earlier this week, Freeland...
Oct 14, 2022

No timeline for hiring Iran sanctions staff, federal minister says
OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says that while legislation is coming within weeks to get tough on the Iranian regime, there is no timeline for hiring people to enforce fresh sanctions...
Oct 14, 2022

Mendicino to visit James Smith Cree Nation after of stabbing massacre
DARTMOUTH, N.S. - The federal public safety minsiter says he is to travel to James Smith Cree Nation next week to advance the Liberal government's plan to have First Nations policing recognized as an ...
Oct 14, 2022

Quebec suspect in decades-old murder and sex assault may have other victims: police
Quebec provincial police say they believe a man charged this week in the murder and sexual assault of a junior college student 22 years ago may have had other victims. Marc-Andr Grenon, 47, was charge...
Oct 14, 2022