Category Archives: Canada

'We're not giving in,' Wet'suwet'en hereditary chief says in wake of arrests
VANCOUVER - Hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en Nation are pledging to continue fighting a natural gas pipeline through their traditional territory, days after 28 of their supporters were arrested f...
Feb 12, 2020

Assembly of First Nations files class action lawsuit over child welfare
OTTAWA - The Assembly of First Nations says it's taking the federal government to court to seek damages for thousands of children and their families affected by federal child-welfare policies on reser...
Feb 12, 2020

Phoenix pay problem backlog declines, but half of workers still impacted
OTTAWA - The backlog of problems created by the federal government's faulty electronic pay system has dropped below 200,000 for the first time since shortly after it was brought fully online...
Feb 12, 2020

AFN chief says federal government must step in to resolve pipeline dispute
OTTAWA - The national chief of the Assembly of First Nations says the federal government must step in to resolve tensions over a natural-gas pipeline running through traditional Indigenous territ...
Feb 12, 2020

China won't release 'two Michaels' because of coronavirus help: experts
Ottawa shouldn't expect Beijing to do it any favours and free the "two Michaels" in return for medical co-operation fighting the new coronavirus, experts say. China's ambassador to Canada hinted at th...
Feb 12, 2020

Liberals pull plug on decade-old plan to move elite Joint Task Force 2 unit
OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government is pulling the plug on a decade-old plan to move the military's elite Joint Task Force 2 to a new base, ending years of speculation and uncertainty for the comm...
Feb 12, 2020

A Canadian evacuee describes life under quarantine at CFB Trenton
CFB TRENTON, Ont. - It's the little luxuries that make all the difference to Myriam Larouche. Back in the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the Canadian graduate student said she felt trapped i...
Feb 12, 2020

Ex-Hasidic couple take Quebec to court over religious school education
MONTREAL - An ex-Hasidic Jewish couple who were educated in a private religious school graduated without knowing how to speak French and hardly being able to speak English, a lawyer said Monday at the...
Feb 12, 2020

Climate change could open new land to farming, but caution needed: study
Climate change could open a whole different area in Canada to farming, says newly published research. But Evan Fraser of the University of Guelph, a co-author of the international study, warns that si...
Feb 12, 2020

Ex-Hasidic woman tells trial she was exempted from secular studies at age 13
MONTREAL - An ex-Hasidic woman has told a trial in Quebec Superior Court that she was exempted from language and math classes beginning at age 13 because it was ...
Feb 12, 2020