Category Archives: Canada

Celebrations across Canada to mark National Indigenous Peoples Day
TORONTO - Events were held across Canada on Friday to mark National Indigenous Peoples Day, including a sunrise ceremony in Toronto, a totem pole unveiling in Whitehorse and the renaming of a str...
Jun 21, 2019

Royal Nova Scotia Tattoo: Online scalpers pick on the wrong event
HALIFAX - Over the past 40 years, the Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo has grown to become the world's largest indoor celebration of military music and traditions. But it's been only in the last...
Jun 21, 2019

Renata Ford, widow of Rob Ford, to run for Bernier's 'People's party' in federal election
Toronto voters will have a chance this fall to vote for yet another Ford. Renata Ford - the widow of former Toronto mayor Rob Ford, sister-in-law to Ontario's premier, daughter-in-law to a former...
Jun 21, 2019

Trudeau promises to legislate implementation of UNDRIP if re-elected
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is promising that a re-elected Liberal government will introduce legislation to ensure federal laws are harmonized with the United Nations Declaration on the Rig...
Jun 21, 2019

Judge denies bid for acquittal in Calgary grandfather's manslaughter trial
CALGARY - A judge says the Crown has presented enough evidence for a Calgary grandfather's manslaughter trial to continue. Allan Perdomo Lopez is charged in the death of his f...
Jun 21, 2019

Danforth shooter had long history of violent thoughts, motive unclear:police
Toronto police say a man who went on a shooting rampage in the city's Greektown last year had a lengthy history of violent thoughts and violence against himself. But they say investigators still don't...
Jun 21, 2019

Make passports free to ease new no-fly list measures, federal panel suggests
Ottawa should consider making passports free to everyone for a year to ease the introduction of new no-fly list procedures, a federal advisory panel recommends. The coming changes will...
Jun 21, 2019

Trans Mountain CEO says shovels could be in ground on pipeline by September
CALGARY - The CEO of the Crown corporation building the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion says shovels could be in the ground by September following cabinet approval Tuesday of the long-delayed projec...
Jun 21, 2019

Security committee 'questions wisdom' of using Chinese technology
OTTAWA - The House of Commons' national-security committee "questions the wisdom" of using technology produced in China in the electronic devices and software Canadians use daily. The committee's ...
Jun 21, 2019

Canada resettled more refugees than any other country in 2018, UN says
OTTAWA - As the number of displaced people worldwide reaches modern highs, new figures show Canada resettled more refugees last year than any other country and had the second-highest nu...
Jun 21, 2019