Category Archives: Canada
Government funding cut a financial blow for Ontario midwives, association says
TORONTO - The association representing Ontario midwives is “very disappointed” about the province’s decision to cut funding to the birth practitioners’ regulatory college, sayi...
Dec 14, 2018
Trudeau expects cannabis supply shortages to be fixed within a year
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the biggest challenge associated with the legalization of cannabis has been the supply shortage - but he expects it to disappear within a year. In an end-of...
Dec 14, 2018
Drug trafficker back in Canadian prison 23 years after fleeing custody
MONTREAL - A convicted drug trafficker who vanished while on leave from a Canadian prison more than 23 years ago has been returned by American authorities. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sai...
Dec 14, 2018
World Sikh Organization demands Canada prove Sikh extremism is a threat
OTTAWA - Canada’s public-safety ministry will reconsider the way Sikh organizations are described in a recent report outlining terror threats in Canada, the department’s minister Ralph Goo...
Dec 14, 2018
Two Manitoba Party activists want judge to oust Steven Fletcher as leader
WINNIPEG - Two activists with the fledgling Manitoba Party are asking the Court of Queen’s Bench to remove Steven Fletcher as leader, alleging the former federal cabinet minister was handed the ...
Dec 14, 2018
Mike Duffy can't sue Senate over suspension without pay, judge rules
OTTAWA - An Ontario judge has delivered a blow to Sen. Mike Duffy in his bid for financial restitution over his dramatic and protracted suspension without pay five years ago, removing the Senate as a ...
Dec 14, 2018
Canada will 'shortly' see Spavor, second detained Canadian in China: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Canadian diplomats will be granted access “shortly” to the second Canadian detained in China, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday, as he predicted consequences for Canada...
Dec 14, 2018
'Blind' Thunder Bay police services board disbanded over racism crisis
The police services board in Thunder Bay, Ont., was disbanded and an administrator appointed in its place on Friday after a report found relations between the force and the city’s Indigenous com...
Dec 14, 2018
Chinese-Canadians have varying reactions to Canada's handling of Huawei case
VANCOUVER - As an international story about a Chinese tech executive wanted by the United States began unfolding from a Vancouver courtroom, the phone lines for a local Mandarin-language radio program...
Dec 14, 2018
Questions raised over retailers who shame shoplifters with photos
A Newfoundland sex store’s social-media shaming of an alleged shoplifter has raised ethical questions around retailers who display security footage in a bid to catch thieves. Provincial privacy ...
Dec 14, 2018
