Category Archives: Canada

Premiers bound for Washington to celebrate USMCA, beat back protectionism
WASHINGTON - A delegation of premiers will be in Washington this weekend to buttress cross-border business ties with their American counterparts, hedging their bets ...
Feb 08, 2020

'The chill is real,' Canada's ambassador to China says of fraught relationship
OTTAWA - Canada's ambassador to China says there is a chill in relations between the two countries since the People's Republic imprisoned two Canadians, but his top priority remains winning their...
Feb 07, 2020

Tories decry judicial appointment amid renewed scrutiny of MacKay's record
OTTAWA - Conservatives are accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of stacking Canada's courts with Liberal partisans, pointing to a recently appointed judge who has donated almost $26,000 to...
Feb 07, 2020

Ottawa spent at least $8 million on First Nations child welfare case: documents
OTTAWA - Newly released documents show Ottawa has spent more than $8 million in legal fees in the ongoing human rights case over First Nations child welfare. Cindy Blackstock, executive director of th...
Feb 07, 2020

Canadian special forces treading carefully in Iraq amid 'sensitive' relations
OTTAWA - Canadian special-forces soldiers are treading carefully in Iraq following an Iranian missile attack against their main base last month and what their commander describes as a sensitive a...
Feb 07, 2020

Almost $150 million in vaunted oceans-protection funding not spent
OTTAWA - Almost $150 million allocated to help protect Canada's oceans has gone unspent by the Trudeau government over the past two years. The Liberals have touted their $1.5-billion oceans protection...
Feb 07, 2020

Fire keeping investigators away from train derailment in rural Saskatchewan
GUERNSEY, Sask. - The Transportation Safety Board says a fire continues to burn at the site of a train derailment in Saskatchewan and investigators can't access the site. It says one investigator...
Feb 07, 2020

Alberta uninterested in federal 'handout' if Teck mine rejected: Nixon
CALGARY - Alberta's environment minister says the province is not interested in any federal handout if Ottawa rejects the proposed Frontier oilsands mine. A Reuters report, citing unidentified sources...
Feb 07, 2020

Opponents to ramp up protests against Trans Mountain pipeline expansion in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Opponents of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion say they will do whatever it takes to stop the project after suffering a devastating legal blow at the Federal Court of Appeal. Activists...
Feb 07, 2020

Sen. Lynn Beyak denies claiming to be Metis
OTTAWA - Sen. Lynn Beyak is denying she ever claimed to be Metis. She issued a two-line statement Wednesday saying the media have reported that she is Metis but she says she has never been a...
Feb 07, 2020