Category Archives: Canada

Poll suggests how abortion, climate policies affect support for Conservatives
OTTAWA - A failure to clearly articulate positions on social conservative issues and a weak climate change plan are often cited as reasons the federal Conservatives failed to woo enough voters to win ...
Jun 27, 2020

Liberal government urged to spend $1.5 billion more to battle COVID-19 abroad
OTTAWA - Canada is expected to send hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding towards an international effort to develop and fairly distribute an eventual COVID-19 vaccine when Prime Ministe...
Jun 27, 2020

B.C. First Nations keeping COVID-19 cases down: health officials
VICTORIA - First Nations in British Columbia have been largely successful in keeping COVID-19 out of their communities by strictly following health guidelines and relying on the advice ...
Jun 26, 2020

Crown says release of N.S. mass shooting details could harm 'massive' probe
HALIFAX - Prosecutors are arguing that fully revealing the information used to obtain search warrants following the province's recent mass shooting could compromise the "massive" police...
Jun 26, 2020

Former Saskatchewan Highway Patrol chief fired over buying equipment like silencers
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government says the former chief of the province's highway patrol was fired for buying inappropriate equipment, including firearm silencers. But Robin Lit...
Jun 26, 2020

Data on PS752 flight recorders to be downloaded in Paris next month
OTTAWA - The federal Transportation Safety Board says information on the flight recorders of the civilian airliner Iran shot down earlier this year will be downloaded the week of July 20 in ...
Jun 26, 2020

National data standards in the works after COVID-19 highlighted info gaps: Hajdu
OTTAWA - Health Minister Patty Hajdu says federal officials are working on national standards for health data collection after the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted major gaps in information. She told a S...
Jun 26, 2020

Employees say human rights museum CEO resignation small win but not enough
WINNIPEG - An online account that shared allegations of a racist and discriminatory work environment at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights says the resignation of the Winnipeg museum's pre...
Jun 26, 2020

OPG pulls plug on plan to bury nuclear waste near the Lake Huron shoreline
TORONTO - Ontario's public generating company has pulled the plug on its plan to bury hazardous radioactive waste near the Lake Huron shoreline. The utility cites opposition from local Indigenous peop...
Jun 26, 2020

Red Cross to send 900 workers to Quebec care homes as military withdraws
OTTAWA - The Canadian Red Cross will send 900 people to work in Quebec's long-term care homes until September, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday. The announcement came as the military prepares...
Jun 26, 2020