Category Archives: Canada

Create new coast-to-coast energy corridor to get pipelines built: Scheer
TORONTO - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says Canada needs a coast-to-coast energy corridor where it would be easy to build pipelines and power lines. In a speech laying out his economic vision bef...
May 16, 2019

Trudeau says U.S. state abortion bans are 'backsliding on women's rights'
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is deeply disappointed in a "backsliding on women's rights" happening in American states moving to ban abortion access. Alabama's legislature p...
May 16, 2019

Woman tells Winnipeg murder trial drugs blossomed into romance
WINNIPEG - One of five women who lived with a man now accused of first-degree murder testified she met him buying methamphetamine but it soon turned romantic. Perez Cleveland, who is 46, has plea...
May 16, 2019

RCMP wants to see evidence that led to demise of Mark Norman case
OTTAWA - RCMP investigators say they're not sure why the Mark Norman case collapsed because they haven't seen the new evidence that led to the stay of a breach-of-trust charge agai...
May 16, 2019

Bank of Canada identifies climate change as important economic weak spot
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is highlighting its growing concerns about the challenges of climate change for the economy and the financial system. For the first time, the central bank's ...
May 16, 2019

British Columbia man has a right to trial in French, Supreme Court says
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada says a British Columbia man charged with a driving offence is entitled to a trial in French. The ruling comes today in the case of Joseph Roy Eric Bessette, who wa...
May 16, 2019

Replacing Phoenix pay system cheaper than fixing its mess, PBO reports
OTTAWA - Parliament's spending watchdog says the cost of building and putting in place a new pay system for federal civil servants should pale in comparison to stabilizing the failed Phoenix system. I...
May 16, 2019

Archbishop fears Quebec government's secularism bill will erode freedoms
Montreal's Archbishop says he fears the province's move to legislate on secularism will come at the expense of individual freedoms. Archbishop Christian Lepine says in a statement that while the state...
May 16, 2019

Canada 'disappointed' Philippines recalling ambassador, consuls over trash
OTTAWA - Canada's foreign ministry says it's disappointed by the Philippines' decisions to recall its ambassador and consuls over festering trash. The department says Canada has "repeatedly conveyed" ...
May 16, 2019

Canadian among six dead in mid-air float plane crash in Alaska
VANCOUVER - Six people are now confirmed dead in the midair crash of two sightseeing floatplanes in Alaska, including one Canadian, the U.S. Coast Guard said late Tuesday. The U.S. agency released the...
May 16, 2019