Category Archives: Canada
Unfinished business, threat to progressive policies driving Trudeau to run again
OTTAWA - If there is a walk in the snow coming for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau this winter, it won't have anything to do with reflecting on his future. It also won't come as the result of being push...
Dec 14, 2023
Conservative MP Michael Chong granted standing in inquiry on foreign interference
OTTAWA - Conservative MP Michael Chong has been granted full standing to participate in the public inquiry into foreign inference in recent Canadian elections. Marie-Jose Hogue, who heads the commissi...
Dec 14, 2023
'He had the best smile': Mom of alleged Kenneth Law victim mourns son, wants answers
Kim Prosser was angry and consumed by grief when she learned that her son was one of the alleged victims of an Ontario man accused of selling lethal substances to people who took their own lives. Now,...
Dec 14, 2023
CP NewsAlert: Trucker who caused Broncos crash loses latest bid to stay in Canada
A federal judge has dismissed applications from the truck driver who caused the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash in Saskatchewan and was fighting deportation back to India. Jaskirat Singh Sidhu was s...
Dec 14, 2023
Explaining Quebec's new French requirement for out-of-province university students
MONTREAL - Not only is Quebec hiking annual tuition for out-of-province students at McGill and Concordia universities to $12,000, the government will also require that 80 per cent of them graduate wit...
Dec 14, 2023
Liberal MPs ask universities if calling for genocide of Jews violates school codes
OTTAWA - Five Liberal members of Parliament are asking 25 Canadian university presidents to say whether calling for a genocide against Jewish people or the elimination of Israel violates their school ...
Dec 14, 2023
New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh, wife Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu welcome second baby girl
TORONTO - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh and his wife, Gurkiran Kaur Sidhu, are the proud parents of their second baby girl. Party officials say the baby is healthy and doing well, as is her mother. The bab...
Dec 14, 2023
Fergus should stay as Speaker, pay a fine for controversial video: committee
OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee says Greg Fergus should stay in his job as Speaker, but he should apologize again and reimburse Parliament for using its resources to make a video that was shown ...
Dec 14, 2023
CP NewsAlert: Quebec hikes tuition for McGill, Concordia, imposes French requirement
MONTREAL - The Quebec government is hiking tuition to $12,000 a year and imposing a French-language requirement for out-of-province students at McGill and Concordia universities. Higher Education Mini...
Dec 14, 2023
In the news today: Liberal caucus divided after UN vote for ceasefire in Gaza
Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... UN vote for Gaza ceasefire disappoints Israel's ambassador, divides Liberal cau...
Dec 14, 2023
