Category Archives: Canada

Bring more voices to caribou recovery plan, says B.C. premier's former liaison
VICTORIA - A former cabinet minister who resigned as Premier John Horgan's liaison for the recovery of threatened caribou herds in northeastern British Columbia says he wants more voices in ...
Feb 02, 2020

Digital footprints lead cops to Arizona fugitive in Canada
PHOENIX - Authorities say man who pleaded guilty to murder before fleeing Arizona over 16 years ago to avoid being sentenced has been arrested in Canada. Adan Perez Huerta pleaded guilty in 2003 to ne...
Feb 01, 2020

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to visit Ethiopia, Senegal and Germany
OTTAWA - The Prime Minister's Office has announced Justin Trudeau will travel to Ethiopia, Senegal and Germany in the coming week. The PMO says the trip will begin on Feb. 6 and will focus on eco...
Feb 01, 2020

Bureaucratic hurdles hampered federal flood-prevention program: audit
OTTAWA - The federal government had trouble spending half of the $184 million earmarked over the last few years to prevent flood damage in Canadian communities, an internal evaluation has fo...
Feb 01, 2020

Parti Quebecois says non-members can vote for new leader for first time
MONTREAL - The Parti Quebecois says that for the first time, non-members will be able to cast a ballot for its leader. The PQ body that determines the leadership race rules says the new status of...
Feb 01, 2020

Liberals face prickly decision over fate of controversial Challenge jets
OTTAWA - Outdated technology on two of the federal government's four Challenger jets means the executive aircraft will no longer be allowed to fly in many countries - or even in Canada - within a...
Feb 01, 2020

New talks planned over disputed gas pipeline in northern British Columbia
VANCOUVER - Leaders of a First Nation in northern British Columbia who say they'll never consent to a natural gas pipeline through their traditional territory have agreed to seven days of me...
Feb 01, 2020

Liberals' changes to summer-jobs program caused confusion, documents show
OTTAWA - A massive spike in incomplete applications for the federal government's signature summer-jobs program last year has officials revising the forms and guides that explain how to get the money. ...
Feb 01, 2020

Pathologist describes fatal gunshot wounds at Desmond inquiry in Nova Scotia
GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - An Afghanistan war veteran shot his wife, daughter and mother from about one metre away before firing a bullet into his own forehead, a pathologist testifi...
Feb 01, 2020

Sobeys to eliminate plastic bags, but 'Sobeys bag' lives on in Atlantic Canada
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Sobeys will phase out plastic grocery bags across the country this week, but for many Atlantic Canadians the "Sobeys bag" will live on in their kitchen cupboards. The groc...
Feb 01, 2020