Category Archives: Canada

Study finds microplastics in all remote Arctic beluga whales tested
VANCOUVER - A pioneering study of seven belugas in Canada's remote Arctic waters has found microplastics in the innards of every single whale. Researchers from Ocean Wise worked with hunters...
Nov 22, 2019

'I was bawling': Injured Bronco's mother stunned by his progress after surgery
The mother of a hockey player paralyzed in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash says she's stunned by the progress he has made since receiving spinal surgery in Thailand. Doctors implanted an epidural ...
Nov 22, 2019

Desjardins CEO defends his bank in front of legislators amid massive data breach
QUEBEC - Desjardins Group President and CEO Guy Cormier defended his bank on Thursday, following revelations that one of its employees stole data belonging to all 4.2 million of th...
Nov 21, 2019

Elman death 'disheartening,' reminder of risks civil society takes, Hussen says
OTTAWA - Federal cabinet minister Ahmed Hussen is calling the death of Somali-Canadian human-rights worker Almaas Elman devastating news for many people, including him. Elman was reportedly shot ...
Nov 21, 2019

Notley kicked out of legislature for comment on election watchdog firing bill
EDMONTON - Alberta NDP Opposition Leader Rachel Notley has been kicked out of the legislature chamber after she refused to apologize for comments about the United Conservative government's p...
Nov 21, 2019

Quebec religious group ordered to provide kids' names over schooling concerns
MONTREAL - Quebec Superior Court has ordered a Montreal religious group to turn over the names of its members' children to the province's Education Department. An injunction this week ordered the...
Nov 21, 2019

Ford says he's learning French, offers a 'bonjour, comment ca va' as evidence
TORONTO - Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is working on learning French and thinks it will be "pretty easy" to pick up. He told Radio-Canada during the Progressive Conservative leadership race last ...
Nov 21, 2019

Brewing battle over future of NATO creates minefield for Canada
OTTAWA - A brewing battle over the future of NATO could have major implications for Canada, which for decades has relied on the military alliance as a cornerstone of its security, protection and influ...
Nov 21, 2019

Federal Liberal government urged to intervene to end CN rail strike
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's new cabinet could find itself moving faster than anticipated to deal with anger in the West over challenging economic conditions, in the face of a rail strike ...
Nov 21, 2019

Trudeau appears open to safe opioid supply proposal in Vancouver: mayor
OTTAWA - Vancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared open to a proposal from the municipality to provide millions in funding for a safe supply of opioids to reduce over...
Nov 21, 2019