Category Archives: Canada

PM urges patience, promises reconciliation in face of anti-pipeline blockades
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised to redouble reconciliation efforts with Indigenous Peoples Tuesday as he sought to ease tensions over nationwide blockades erected in opposition to...
Feb 20, 2020

Supreme Court to decide next step in Via Rail terror case
OTTAWA - The fate of two men accused of plotting to derail a Via train in a terrorist attack should become a little clearer today. The Supreme Court of Canada is set to decide whether it wil...
Feb 20, 2020

Standards for coronavirus protection to be reviewed, health agency says
OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada says it will review its protocols for health-care workers after nurses' unions denounced the national guidelines set out for dealing with the...
Feb 19, 2020

Quebec boxing promoter says he didn't invite criminal bikers in ringside seats
MONTREAL - Quebec boxing promoter Yvon Michel says he doesn't know the criminal bikers who showed up at one of his events last September and he never gave any of them tickets. Michel testifi...
Feb 19, 2020

Top judge says judiciary must decide what training judges need
OTTAWA - The chief justice of Canada says the judiciary must be free to decide what training and education judges need to do their jobs well. Richard Wagner's comments in a speech to the Can...
Feb 19, 2020

B.C.'s soda drink tax will help kids lose weight, improve health, says doctor
VICTORIA - The chairman of the Childhood Obesity Foundation says a new tax on sugary soda will improve the health of British Columbia's children. Dr. Tom Warshawski says studies show sugary drinks con...
Feb 19, 2020

Serious injuries after 200 vehicles involved in pileup south of Montreal
MONTREAL - Authorities say whiteout conditions most likely triggered a massive pileup involving about 200 vehicles in La Prairie, south of Montreal. There were no immediate reports of deaths...
Feb 19, 2020

N.L. Premier Dwight Ball to step down, says he will seek a 'more private life'
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador's premier has announced he is stepping down after more than four years leading the province. Dwight Ball said in a video released Monday that he has asked ...
Feb 19, 2020

New presidential elections key to solving Venezuelan crisis: Colombian envoy
OTTAWA - Fleeing Venezuelans - all 1.4 million of them - will always be welcome in his country, says Colombia's ambassador to Canada, but his real hope is that they are able to one day retur...
Feb 19, 2020

Sen. Oh breached Senate ethics code repeatedly with expenses-paid China trip
OTTAWA - The Senate's ethics officer says Conservative Sen. Victor Oh breached the upper house's ethics code four times when he accepted an all-expenses paid trip to China in 2017. More...
Feb 19, 2020