Category Archives: Canada
No word on status of 135 Canadians cleared to leave Gaza Strip over weekend
OTTAWA - Canadians with loved ones trapped in the embattled Gaza Strip are still waiting to learn whether the 135 people cleared to leave the territory on Sunday were able to make the journey. A daily...
Nov 20, 2023
Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh blasts Trudeau, Poilievre at B.C. convention
VICTORIA - Federal New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh took political swings at both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre today at a convention for British Columbia Pre...
Nov 19, 2023
Public sector strike: Quebec government calls on unions to submit counter-offer
MONTREAL - Quebec's treasury board president is imploring unionized workers to table a counter-offer to the government's last contract proposal ahead of this week's planned, provincewide public sector...
Nov 19, 2023
Canada criminalized 'condoning, denying or downplaying' the Holocaust: is it working?
OTTAWA - Canadian Jewish organizations are calling on the Liberal government to remove what they see as barriers to enforcing a relatively new Criminal Code provision against Holocaust denialism amid ...
Nov 19, 2023
Tiny beetle to the rescue of N.S. hemlocks attacked by woolly invasive insect
FREDERICTON - On comfortable beds of wood shavings inside multiple boxes, 3,600 Laricobius nigrinus beetles made overnight journeys last month from the forests of British Columbia all the way to south...
Nov 19, 2023
Freeland to present fall fiscal update Tuesday as cost-of-living dominates politics
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland will table the fall fiscal update on Tuesday, which is expected to focus on housing and affordability as the Liberal government struggles to regain favour w...
Nov 19, 2023
B.C. stream watchers link 'unprecedented' coho salmon kill to tire toxin and drought
VANCOUVER - John Barker has been volunteering with the West Vancouver Streamkeeper Society for more than 20 years and says he's never seen anything like it, dozens of coho salmon, pre-spawn and silver...
Nov 19, 2023
List of people cleared to leave Gaza Strip via Egypt includes 135 Canadians
OTTAWA - A new batch of people with ties to Canada desperate to flee escalating violence in the Gaza Strip has been approved to leave the besieged territory as of today. The names of 135 Canadians are...
Nov 19, 2023
Sex assault centre director replaced over letter questioning alleged Hamas rapes
EDMONTON - The president of the University of Alberta says the school has replaced the director of its sexual assault centre over its endorsement of an open letter that questions the validity of sexua...
Nov 18, 2023
Top general worries about maintaining Pacific fleet on current budget 'trajectory'
HALIFAX - Canada's top soldier says the military's ability to keep funding a "persistent presence" of warships in the western Pacific is facing challenges on the current budget. Gen. Wayne Eyre was sp...
Nov 18, 2023
