Category Archives: Canada
Overspending on luxury trips cited as part of RCMP's probe of government in B.C.
VICTORIA - The Speaker of the British Columbia legislature alleges in a report that the clerk and sergeant-at-arms engaged in flagrant overspending, questionable expenses and inappropriate payouts of ...
Jan 21, 2019
United Conservatives leader Jason Kenney disputes expense allegations while MP
EDMONTON - Alberta United Conservative Leader Jason Kenney and his staff are firing back at a lawyer who is questioning Kenney’s residential expense claims from his time as a cabinet minister in...
Jan 21, 2019
NDP, Liberals pitch for urban votes with competing affordable housing plans
OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh is proposing three measures he says will help build 500,000 new affordable housing units across Canada over the next 10 years. The NDP leader says the federal government should ...
Jan 21, 2019
Democrat hopefuls either declared or considering presidential runs next year
WASHINGTON - California Sen. Kamala Harris announced Monday she intends to seek the Democratic nomination to challenge U.S. President Donald Trump for the White House in 2020. She joins an already cro...
Jan 21, 2019
Five things about possible involvement of Huawei in Canada's 5G networks
OTTAWA - Five things about the possible involvement of Huawei Technologies in Canada’s 5G mobile networks: What is 5G? The development of 5G - or fifth-generation - mobile networks will give use...
Jan 21, 2019
Six eagles killed, six injured after eating tainted carcass on Vancouver Island
DUNCAN, B.C. - Animal experts say no more bald eagles have been found since 12 sick or dying birds were taken in for care on southern Vancouver Island. Robyn Radcliffe, the executive director of the R...
Jan 21, 2019
Crown opens case against accused: Winnipeg bus driver was stabbed multiple times
WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg bus driver was killed on the job by an angry passenger who refused to leave the vehicle at the end of a run, a Crown attorney said at the opening of a two-week second-degree murd...
Jan 21, 2019
Manitoba's Pallister blasts Quebec over list of demands to federal parties
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says a list of demands by his Quebec counterpart presented to the prime minister last week is nothing more than “brokerage politics.” Pallister ...
Jan 21, 2019
Mac gives Moose Jaw permission to make him tallest moose in world again
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - Mac has given his caretakers in Moose Jaw, Sask., permission to once again make him the world’s tallest moose statue. The moose says he would even wear an RCMP Stetson or stil...
Jan 21, 2019
Crown criticizes parole ruling for U.S.-born convicted killer, sexual predator
HALIFAX - A top Nova Scotia prosecutor is questioning a parole board decision allowing the release and deportation of a convicted killer and sexual predator, saying it’s based on “hope ove...
Jan 21, 2019
