Category Archives: Canada
The battle for 2019 has already begun: Conservatives gearing up for election
OTTAWA - Canada’s Conservatives are unapologetically in election campaign mode as they gather in Ottawa for a three-day caucus retreat this weekend. The MPs and Senators have gathered in part to...
Jan 25, 2019
Trudeau pressed in Quebec City to give more contracts to Davie shipyard
QUEBEC - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau offered an optimistic vision for Quebec but few concrete promises on Friday as he delivered a series of campaign-style speeches in the provincial capital. With t...
Jan 25, 2019
Crown stays manslaughter charge against former Calgary pastor in son's death
CALGARY - The Alberta Crown has stayed a manslaughter charge against a former pastor who had been accused in his infant son’s death. Cyrus Nel was three months old when he died in a Calgary hosp...
Jan 25, 2019
Police seizure of sex assault suspect's coffee cup justified: Appeal Court
MONTREAL - Quebec’s highest court has ruled that tricking a sexual assault suspect into providing his DNA does not constitute a privacy violation. Giovanni D’Amico had appealed his 2014 co...
Jan 25, 2019
Liberals' infrastructure program problems detailed in internal documents
OTTAWA - A large number of small construction transit and water system projects funded through the first phase of the Liberal government’s infrastructure program bogged down the approval process...
Jan 25, 2019
Top military judge to face court martial overseen by deputy this summer
OTTAWA - The Canadian Forces’ top judge is set to be tried in a court martial this spring that will be overseen by his own deputy, in a case that is shaping up as a test for the military’s...
Jan 25, 2019
U.S. hunters use duck hunting ruse to bag illegal quarry in Canada: ministry
REGINA - Several charges related to illegal hunting in Saskatchewan have been laid against two men from Missouri who were found guilty last month in one of that state’s largest deer-poaching cas...
Jan 25, 2019
As U.S. air travel stalls, Trump agrees to halt shutdown temporarily
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump sounded a full retreat Friday in his border-wall war with Congress, agreeing to a three-week pause in the longest government shutdown in U.S. history just as the im...
Jan 25, 2019
RCMP charge Kingston youth with trying to get someone to plant a bomb
KINGSTON, Ont. - The RCMP have charged a Kingston youth with terrorism, saying the person - who cannot be identified - allegedly tried to persuade someone to plant a bomb. A second individual, who cam...
Jan 25, 2019
'Restore and rebuild Waterton:' $21M from Ottawa for fire- damaged national park
CALGARY - Ottawa is spending almost $21 million to help Waterton Lakes National Park in southwestern Alberta bounce back from a destructive wildfire that scorched nearly 40 per cent of it. “This...
Jan 25, 2019
