Category Archives: Canada

Trudeau says it is time world admits there is too much systemic violence
GOREE ISLAND, Senegal - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the world needs to do more to prevent repeating the horrors of history. Trudeau is visiting Goree Island in Senegal this morning. The island ...
Feb 12, 2020

Second Canadian plane bringing Wuhan evacuees home: foreign minister
A second Canadian plane has left the quarantined region of Hubei, China, bearing more Canadians who have asked to return from the centre of the novel coronavirus outbreak, the federal govern...
Feb 12, 2020

A new shipboard Cdn coronavirus case and pipeline protests; In The News for Feb. 10
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 10. What we are watching in Canada ... Pr...
Feb 12, 2020

Backlog of applications for veterans' benefits grows by the thousands
OTTAWA - More Canadian veterans than ever are waiting to find out whether they qualify for disability benefits, despite repeated government promises and efforts to get the situation under control. New...
Feb 12, 2020

A note on a dropped piano and a curtain call; In The News for Feb. 12
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 12 ... What...
Feb 12, 2020

Trudeau cabinet ministers get special hacker hotline to report suspected breaches
OTTAWA - Federal cabinet ministers now have their own special hotline to report suspected hacking incidents. Officials at the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security set up the rou...
Feb 12, 2020

Trudeau misses deadline for disclosing private interests to ethics commissioner
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has run afoul of federal ethics rules yet again - this time missing the deadline for filing a financial disclosure statement with the ethics commissioner. Every ...
Feb 11, 2020

Fear of age-old protectionist sentiment returns in post-NAFTA era
WASHINGTON - With a new continental trade deal all but done, it might be tempting to think that cross-border business anxiety will soon be a thing of the past, at least for a while. But...
Feb 11, 2020

Trudeau urged to scramble for African business and trade opportunities
The Trudeau government needs to scramble to deepen trade and investment in Africa to make up for ground lost to competitors such as China, the United States and Europe, say Canada's top chie...
Feb 11, 2020

NDP throne speech in B.C. highlights accomplishments at midway point of mandate
VICTORIA - British Columbia's NDP government is promising new funding supplements for children and youth in care and the expansion of commuter service into the Fraser Valley in a throne speech to...
Feb 11, 2020