Category Archives: Canada

Controversial environment-review bill faces major changes in Senate as clock ticks
OTTAWA - Canadian senators are trying to make more than 100 amendments to the government's environmental-assessment bill that overhauls how major energy and transportation projects are reviewed. The&n...
May 09, 2019

Refugee who lost fingers to frostbite pleads with MPs not to pass new asylum law
OTTAWA - A man from Ghana who lost all his fingers to frostbite after crossing irregularly into Manitoba - and whose story focused attention on the border - is pleading with MPs not to pass ...
May 09, 2019

Kashechewan First Nation gets agreement from feds, Ontario to relocate
OTTAWA - A northern Ontario First Nation has an agreement with the federal and provincial government that lays out a plan to move the reserve annually threatened by flood waters. Kashechewan...
May 09, 2019

U.S., European diplomats support Canada in Chinese court in death-penalty appeal
OTTAWA - Canadian diplomats were joined in a Chinese courtroom today by American, British, French and German colleagues to watch the appeal of a Canadian who has been sentenced to ...
May 09, 2019

Ex-Tory MP Del Mastro accuses Elections Canada of a 'personal vendetta'
OTTAWA - A former Conservative MP who spent time behind bars for electoral offences is accusing Canada's elections authority of having a personal vendetta against him - and he's calling for a par...
May 09, 2019

Man charged with second-degree murder in deaths of Calgary woman, toddler
CALGARY - A man suspected of killing a woman and her toddler daughter has been charged with two counts of second-degree murder. Robert Andrew Leeming, 34, appeared via video before a justice of t...
May 09, 2019

Scheer says he will move Canadian Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv
MONTREAL - A Conservative government would move Canada's embassy in Israel to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv, party leader Andrew Scheer said in a sometimes fiery foreign-policy speech on Tuesday t...
May 09, 2019

'She was slaughtered:' Winnipeg jury hears closing arguments in murder case
WINNIPEG - A Crown prosecutor says a Winnipeg man on trial for killing an Indigenous woman committed a ghastly crime worse than any horror movie. "How did Christine Wood die? She was slaughtered," Bre...
May 09, 2019

Montreal moves to reduce carbon footprint, phase out heating oil by 2030
Montreal building owners will have a little more than a decade to rid themselves of their oil furnaces as the city moves to ban the use of heating oil from its territory by 20...
May 09, 2019

Canada will bear cost of repatriating trash-filled containers from Philippines
OTTAWA - Canada has agreed to pay the full cost of bringing 69 garbage-laden shipping containers back across the Pacific Ocean to Vancouver - but it remains unclear how much it will cost and when it w...
May 09, 2019