Category Archives: Canada

Alberta Premier Kenney cleared after questions raised about MP housing expenses
OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee has cleared Alberta Premier Jason Kenney of allegations he wrongly claimed residential expenses while he was a Conservative cabinet minister in Ottawa. The Board ...
May 02, 2019
Alberta's 'turn-off-taps' law makes gas price jumps and shortages real
VICTORIA - Get ready for higher gasoline prices and shortages in British Columbia and a supply surplus on the Prairies if Alberta Premier Jason Kenney uses a newly proclaimed law to restrict fuel expo...
May 02, 2019

Canadian Forces adapting as requests for disaster-related assistance grow
OTTAWA - The first time Warrant Officer Andrew Buchan was called on to help provide disaster relief at home was the flooding in Quebec in 2017, after 15 years in the reserves. Now, only two years late...
May 02, 2019
Mother and four kids dead in fire in northern Ontario First Nation
A mother and four of her children were killed in a house fire on a northern Ontario First Nation on Thursday, leaving the remote community struggling to deal with the tragedy. There was no immediate w...
May 02, 2019

Elections commissioner says no political input into SNC-Lavalin deal
OTTAWA - The watchdog who enforces Canada’s election laws says no one from the Prime Minister’s Office tried to help SNC-Lavalin avoid being charged with breaking campaign-financing rules....
May 02, 2019
24-year-old Quebec man pleads guilty to killing 18-year-old ex-girlfriend
A Quebec man accused of ambushing and killing his ex-girlfriend pleaded guilty Thursday to second-degree murder and will serve an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 18 years. Daphne ...
May 02, 2019
Details emerge of dramatic rescue from Labrador mountain after plane crash
MAKKOVIK, N.L. - A Belgian pilot sheltering in his smashed aircraft on a Labrador mountainside was surprised and grateful to see nine rescuers emerge from a blinding blizzard to save him, says the man...
May 02, 2019

Ex-Obama envoy Heyman details 'ice age' with Harper over Keystone pipeline
OTTAWA - Barack Obama’s former envoy to Ottawa has pulled back the veil on how the previous Conservative government of Stephen Harper froze him out over the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. B...
May 02, 2019

Conservatives seek criminal investigation of PM's trips to Aga Khan's island
OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives want the RCMP to look into whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau broke the law by accepting family vacations on the Aga Khan’s private Caribbean island. In a l...
May 02, 2019

Energy company's bankruptcy may show lenders viewing industry differently: CAPP
The bankruptcy of an energy company that plans to walk away from thousands of gas wells may be a sign lenders are changing how they look at the industry in light of a recent Supreme Court ruling. R...
May 02, 2019