Category Archives: Canada
After concerns, Ottawa pauses work on $2-million contract for help on unmarked graves
OTTAWA - The federal government has paused and plans to reworka $2-million contract with an international group hired to provide advice on identifying and locating the unmarked graves of children who ...
Nov 29, 2023
Indigenous signage aims to make B.C. legislature more inclusive, accepting
VICTORIA - The Speaker of British Columbia's legislature says the unveiling of Indigenous-themed signs outside the building is a necessary step toward opening doors that have been historically closed....
Nov 29, 2023
Online harms bill: Don't link boy's suicide with government actions, Trudeau says
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it's inappropriate to draw a link between government actions and the death of a British Columbia boy who killed himself last month after falling prey to onl...
Nov 29, 2023
Quebec legislature unanimously condemns human rights commission's Christmas criticism
Quebec's legislature has unanimously adopted a motion in defence of Christmas. Christopher Skeete, the province's anti-racism minister, introduced the motion today condemning the Canadian Human Rights...
Nov 29, 2023
Google to pay $100M a year to Canadian news publishers in deal with Ottawa
OTTAWA - Google is set to contribute $100 million a year to Canadian news publishers, in a deal that has the Liberal government bending to the tech giant's demands after it threatened to remove news f...
Nov 29, 2023
Lawyer for pharma company argues against single trial in B.C. opioid damages case
VANCOUVER - A lawyer for a pharmaceutical firm says holding a single trial in British Columbia to determine damages for each province and territory related to opioid health-care costs would be a "mons...
Nov 29, 2023
U.S. says alleged murder plotter was directed by India and mentioned B.C. killing
OTTAWA - American prosecutors say a man allegedly involved in a murder plot against a Sikh activist on U.S. soil also discussed the killing of Canadian Hardeep Singh Nijjar, just hours after Nijjar wa...
Nov 29, 2023
Investigation opened after Saguenay, Que., police kill man allegedly armed with knife
SAGUENAY, Que. - Quebec's police watchdog says it is investigating after police in Saguenay, Que., shot and killed a man who was allegedly armed with a knife. The agency, known as the Bureau des enqut...
Nov 29, 2023
Senators need to 'get out of the way' and pass carbon price bill: Tory MP
OTTAWA - Ontario Conservative MP Adam Chambers says senators should, in his words, "learn their place in a democracy" and go back to being what he calls "invisible" instead of holding up a carbon pric...
Nov 29, 2023
Feds select Boeing military plane in sole-source deal, bypassing Bombardier
The federal government is expected to announce as early as Thursday that it has selected Boeing to replace the military's aging patrol planes in a multibillion-dollar deal, according to three sources ...
Nov 29, 2023
