Category Archives: Canada
Group monitoring RCMP response to mass shooting inquiry needs public's help: chair
HALIFAX - The head of the committee overseeing how governments and the RCMP are responding to the Nova Scotia mass shooting inquiry says the public will play a key role in ensuring the inquiry's recom...
Sep 28, 2023
Judge grants injunction over Saskatchewan's pronoun policy for schools
REGINA - A judge has granted an injunction to halt a Saskatchewan policy that requires parental consent when children under 16 want to go by different names and pronouns at school. The decision by Cou...
Sep 28, 2023
Northvolt to build $7B battery factory near Montreal, includes government money
MONTREAL - Swedish manufacturer Northvolt says it will build a $7 billion gigafactory for electric vehicle batteries near Montreal that it claims will represent the largest private investment in Quebe...
Sep 28, 2023
Ex-MPP Randy Hillier's request to move trial away from Ottawa denied
OTTAWA - A judge has denied a second request by former Ontario MPP Randy Hillier, who is facing charges related to his participation in the "Freedom Convoy" protest, to move his jury trial away from O...
Sep 28, 2023
Emails at centre of court martial for Lt.-Gen. Whelan are under publication ban
OTTAWA - The military judge presiding over the court martial for Lt.-Gen. Steve Whelan has decided the emails at the centre of the case will not be made public during the trial unless they are allowed...
Sep 28, 2023
Liberals' bail reforms will keep more Black, Indigenous people in jail, lawyers warn
OTTAWA - An association representing Black lawyers in Canada says more Black people will be sent to jail if the Liberal government's bail-reform legislation passes as is. And Indigenous Bar Associatio...
Sep 28, 2023
University of Alberta returns endowment honouring Ukrainian who fought with Nazis
EDMONTON - The University of Alberta is returning endowment funds from the family of a Ukrainian man whose military service was linked to the Nazis. Since 2019, the university's Canadian Institute of ...
Sep 28, 2023
Military police under investigation over handling of sexual assault case
OTTAWA - The Military Police Complaints Commission is investigating the way officers handled allegations of sexual assault against a soldier who took his own life. Military police charged Maj. Cristia...
Sep 28, 2023
Joyce Echaquan's community fights for change to health system three years after death
MONTREAL - It has been three years since Joyce Echaquan died in hospital after filming staff insulting her, but for her family and her First Nation, the fight continues to ensure a legacy of better tr...
Sep 28, 2023
Cyberattacks hit military, Parliament websites as India hacker group targets Canada
OTTAWA - The federal government is coping with apparent cyberattacks this week, as a hacker group in India claims it has sowed chaos in Ottawa. The Canadian Armed Forces says that its website became u...
Sep 28, 2023
