Category Archives: Canada
U.S. president not making much fuss over Canada's 3% tax on web giants, Trudeau says
OTTAWA - Canada's tax on Netflix and other foreign digital services companies may be a major irritant for the U.S. tech sector, but Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it doesn't seem to be much concer...
Dec 12, 2023
B.C. Conservatives awaken from decades in dormancy ahead of 2024 vote
VICTORIA - The first blip on the radar signalling a potentially new player in British Columbia politics occurred in the summer byelection to fill the seat vacated by former New Democrat premier John H...
Dec 12, 2023
Police say person took loaded gun into Ibrahim Ali murder trial: lawyer
VANCOUVER - A lawyer for Ibrahim Ali in his first-degree murder trial says police told him a person close to the proceeding brought a handgun into the Vancouver courtroom on Friday with "intent to kil...
Dec 11, 2023
New N.W.T. premier to focus on emergency readiness, working with Indigenous leaders
YELLOWKNIFE - Few understand better the need for communities to be prepared for weather emergencies and disasters than the new premier of the Northwest Territories. R.J. Simpson, elected premier by fe...
Dec 11, 2023
Tories have 'successfully' scapegoated carbon price in affordability crisis: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Conservative party has been successful at "scapegoating" the carbon price as the reason everything is more expensive. Trudeau says in a year-end intervi...
Dec 11, 2023
AI systems 'can be weaponized,' warns top U.S. cyber official in promoting safeguards
OTTAWA - Top cybersecurity officials are urging technology firms to bake safeguards into the futuristic artificial intelligence systems they're cooking up, to prevent them from being sabotaged or misu...
Dec 11, 2023
Police violated protesters' rights in Wet'suwet'en pipeline blockades, Amnesty says
VANCOUVER - A report by Amnesty International says police in British Columbia conducted arbitrary arrests and "aggressive surveillance, harassment and intimidation" of First Nations protesters blockin...
Dec 11, 2023
Three dead after shed fire outside home improvement store in Calgary
CALGARY - Fire officials say three people are dead after a fire in a shed outside a home improvement store in Calgary. Crews responded to the fire just before 4 a.m. at a Lowe's in the city's northwes...
Dec 11, 2023
Quebec man faces manslaughter charge after killing at tree pruning company
LAVAL, Que. - Police north of Montreal say a man has been charged with manslaughter after an alleged break-in and theft at a tree pruning company in November. Sylvain Duchesne, 44, appeared in a Laval...
Dec 11, 2023
Hajdu expected table Liberal government's First Nations water bill today
OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Patty Hajdu is expected to table much-anticipated legislation to improve water quality in First Nations communities today. Hajdu previously said the legislation s...
Dec 11, 2023
