Category Archives: Canada
Minister meets with committee to develop national approach to campus violence
The minister for women and gender equality says an advisory committee is developing a national framework to hold universities and colleges responsible for addressing sexual violence on campus, but stu...
Jan 16, 2019
B.C. windstorm cost insurers $37 million for loss to homes, businesses, vehicles
VANCOUVER - The insured cost of damage from the windstorm that raged through southern B.C. in December is over $37 million, and the Insurance Bureau of Canada says that pushed the price of extreme wea...
Jan 16, 2019
Quebec to investigate allegations at English Montreal School Board
MONTREAL - Quebec’s education minister has ordered an investigation of the province’s largest English-language school board after learning of serious allegations about the board’s go...
Jan 16, 2019
Kentucky canoe outfit borrows photo of Trudeau family to market business
OTTAWA - You might think the last thing you'd stumble onto on a rural road in central Kentucky is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Chances are many of the people who pass by the intersection where Mammo...
Jan 16, 2019
B.C. chief says they didn't give up rights for gas pipeline to be built
SMITHERS, B.C. - No elected band council or Crown authority has jurisdiction over the land, a Wet’suwet’en hereditary chief told a crowd of supporters and First Nations leaders gathered in...
Jan 16, 2019
'It's a joke': Quebec comic Ward appeals $42K penalty for joke about disabled boy
MONTREAL - Comedians in Quebec will be afraid to make controversial jokes if a 2016 ruling against Mike Ward by the province’s Human Rights Tribunal is upheld, lawyer Julius Grey said Wednesday....
Jan 16, 2019
Defence chief Vance slated to testify this month in Vice-Admiral Norman case
OTTAWA - Canada’s top military officer is expected to take the stand later this month in a pre-trial hearing for Vice-Admiral Mark Norman. Norman’s lawyer, Marie Henein, said Gen. Jonathan...
Jan 16, 2019
Fortified Arctic infrastructure needed in face of climate change: study
The impact of climate change on roads and other crucial structures in Canada’s North is likely to be even greater than feared, says new detailed research. “These are greater impacts than a...
Jan 16, 2019
Byelection turmoil: Liberal quits after singling out Jagmeet Singh as Indian
VANCOUVER - The Liberal candidate running against NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in a Metro Vancouver byelection dropped out of the race Wednesday after drawing criticism for an online post singling out Sin...
Jan 16, 2019
Canadian mining employee kidnapped in northern Burkina Faso: local officials
A Canadian national has been kidnapped in Burkina Faso’s northern Sahel region, government officials said Wednesday. A spokesman for Burkina Faso’s security ministry identified the man as ...
Jan 16, 2019
