Category Archives: Canada

Via to resume service in southwestern Ontario starting Thursday morning
MONTREAL - Via Rail says its service will resume Thursday morning in southwestern Ontario. The passenger rail company says it received a notification from CN Rail allowing a resumption of service in t...
Feb 20, 2020

Baloney Meter: Rail blockades and government authority over the police
OTTAWA - "The RCMP Act is clear: the minister of public safety has the ultimate authority over Canada's national police force, and has the power to direct the RCMP to enforce the law. ... So do the ri...
Feb 20, 2020

Patrik Mathews, accused neo-Nazi, pleads not guilty to U.S. weapons charges
GREENBELT, Md. - A former Canadian Forces reservist at the centre of an alleged white-supremacist plot to trigger a race war in the United States pleaded not guilty to weapons charges Tuesday as ...
Feb 20, 2020

Federal minister pledges to meet chiefs in B.C. over natural gas pipeline
OTTAWA - The federal Crown-Indigenous relations minister is offering to meet today with Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs in northwestern British Columbia. But while Carolyn Bennett and her B.C. counterp...
Feb 20, 2020

Canadians aboard coronavirus-ridden cruise ship to return home tonight
OTTAWA - Healthy Canadians from the Diamond Princess cruise ship will shortly be heading home, according to Canada's foreign affairs minister, after weeks under quarantine for the novel coronavir...
Feb 20, 2020

Canada hosts Lima Group meeting to find solutions to Venezuela crisis
GATINEAU, Que. - Canada is hosting the gathering of foreign ministers today from the coalition of Western Hemisphere countries who are trying to solve the Venezuela crisis. Foreign Affairs Minister Fr...
Feb 20, 2020

House of Commons returns and China's 'War on Terror'; In The News for Feb. 18
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 18. What we are watching in Canada ... Pr...
Feb 20, 2020

Protests put pressure on Trudeau and B.C.'s sweet tax; In The News for Feb. 20
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 20 ... What...
Feb 20, 2020

Energy, economy, land rights face Trudeau as House of Commons returns
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau returns to a House of Commons eager to debate his government's policies on the economy, energy, climate change and reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples after a...
Feb 20, 2020

Virus strikes more Canadians on cruise ship as evacuation plane heads for Japan
A plane carrying Canadians from a quarantined cruise ship in Japan will leave the region by week's end, the federal government says, as the number aboard sickened with the novel coronav...
Feb 20, 2020