Category Archives: Canada

Northerners applaud funding for long-awaited road through Arctic tundra
Work is expected to begin on the first road into the heart of Canada's mineral-rich tundra after two funding announcements this week by federal Transportation Minister Marc Garneau. Garneau ...
Aug 15, 2019

New Brunswick Crown will not appeal acquittal in Oland murder trial
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick's Public Prosecution Services announced Tuesday they will not appeal last month's acquittal of Dennis Oland on a charge of second-degree murder in ...
Aug 15, 2019

Men twice as likely to smoke pot as women, Statistics Canada says
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says Canadian men are almost twice as likely to use pot as women. New data from the National Cannabis Survey today shows 16 per cent of Canadians over 15 years old repo...
Aug 15, 2019

Quebec introduces new safety measures at site of deadly highway crash
MONTREAL - Quebec Transport Minister Francois Bonnardel has announced four measures to improve safety and traffic flow at the site of a deadly pileup that left four people dead this month no...
Aug 15, 2019

Trudeau should apologize for violation of ethics code: Philpott
OTTAWA - Former Liberal cabinet minister turned Independent MP Jane Philpott says the people of Canada still "deserve an apology" from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the SNC-Lavalin affair. In an in...
Aug 15, 2019

Trudeau repeats non-apology for 'standing up for jobs' in SNC-Lavalin affair
FREDERICTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is repeating what's sure to be his go-to election campaign message on the SNC-Lavalin affair: he's not about to apologize for what he calls standing up for ...
Aug 15, 2019

Vehicle slams into house causing explosion in London, Ont., police say
LONDON, Ont. - Dozens of people have been displaced from their homes in southwestern Ontario as firefighters continue to battle a growing blaze following a major house ex...
Aug 15, 2019

Canada largely successful in managing economic immigration: OECD study
OTTAWA - A glowing international review of Canada's economic immigration system should serve as a factual counterpoint against anti-immigration sentiment, the federal immigration minister said Tuesday...
Aug 15, 2019

Report says why PMO wanted former Supreme Court judges to advise on SNC-Lavalin
OTTAWA - After months of unrelenting news coverage, hours of oral testimony and reams of written submissions to a House of Commons committee on the SNC-Lavalin affair, the federal ethic...
Aug 15, 2019

High profile could help Jody Wilson-Raybould keep her seat away from Liberals
OTTAWA - There had been a few names floating around when the Liberals were seeking a candidate for the newly created riding of Vancouver Granville in the last federal election, but it soon became clea...
Aug 15, 2019