Category Archives: Canada

Six stories in the news for Tuesday, Oct. 18 --- OTTAWA PREPARES TO DISCUSS HEALTH SPENDING Health Minister Jane Philpott faces a tough discussion with her provincial and territorial counterparts toda...

LUXEMBOURG - European Union nations failed to endorse a landmark trade deal with Canada as scheduled on Tuesday, but remain optimistic they can do so by next week, when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau i...

WASHINGTON - Scolded by his own party, slammed by the president as a whiner and censured by the chattering classes as a threat to American democracy, Donald Trump stuck to his guns Tuesday and insiste...

TORONTO - Health Minister Jane Philpott offered an apology of sorts to her provincial and territorial counterparts Tuesday after some of them pushed back against her argument that federal health dolla...

FREDERICTON - Dennis Oland’s lawyer says the Crown used speculation that was not backed by evidence to get a conviction of second-degree murder in the killing of Oland’s multi-millionaire ...

EDSON, Alta. - RCMP say a man being pursued by Mounties forced the closure of a small airport in Edson, Alta., after he drove through a security gate and onto a runway before his pickup truck caught f...

DENVER - Officials in Denver, Colo., say sexual assault charges against a British Columbia man have been dropped. The Denver District Attorney’s Office says in a release that two charges against...

KELOWNA, B.C. - The Transportation Safety Board renewed its call Monday for flight data or cockpit voice recorders to be carried on smaller planes after a jet crash last week in B.C. killed four peopl...

TORONTO - Cleveland Indians fans in Toronto for a crucial playoff game against the Blue Jays said the team’s name and logo are not offensive and should not be changed. Sarah Johnston said the te...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Oct. 17 ____ TEARS, TRIBUTES FOR JIM PRENTICE IN PARLIAMENT: Former federal cabinet minister and Alberta premier Jim Prentice is being remembered in Ottawa, d...