Category Archives: Canada
Labour, environment standards key to getting USMCA through: Canadian ambassador
OTTAWA - Canada’s pressure to include “soft things” like labour standards in the new North American free-trade treaty will help secure critical support for the deal from Democrats in...
Dec 03, 2018
Ottawa announces $50M to support survivors of gender-based violence
HALIFAX - Forty days ago, a woman returned to her home on Nova Scotia’s We’koqma’q First Nation to find her 22-year-old daughter, Cassidy Bernard - a new mother of infant twins - dea...
Dec 03, 2018
Newfoundlanders remember former president Bush's fishing trips to Labrador
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Some prominent Newfoundlanders are reflecting on the late George H.W. Bush and his affection for the fishing trips he made to the province. The former U.S. president passed aw...
Dec 03, 2018
'A national priority:" Alberta sets legal wheels in motion to cut oil production
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley and her cabinet have put the legal wheels in motion to begin cutting oil production, while calling on the federal government to step up. “We don’t ...
Dec 03, 2018
Saskatchewan introduces mandatory semi-truck driver training after Broncos crash
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government is introducing mandatory training for semi-truck drivers almost eight months after the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. Starting in March, drivers seeking a Class 1 com...
Dec 03, 2018
B.C. First Nation to present oral evidence about Trans Mountain expansion impact
NANAIMO, B.C. - The Tsleil-Waututh Nation will be presenting Indigenous oral traditional evidence to the National Energy Board at a hearing in Nanaimo, B.C. A news release says the board is hearing ne...
Dec 03, 2018
Trudeau criticized for tweet to Trevor Noah pledging $50M charity gift
OTTAWA - Canada will contribute $50 million to a global charity for children’s education, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau tweeted to comedian Trevor Noah, a pledge that quickly drew criticism both...
Dec 03, 2018
How 2019 could bring Canada's first Green government - on tiny P.E.I.
Tiny Prince Edward Island has long embraced the politically unusual: it had the first premier of non-European heritage, the first elected woman premier and the first openly gay male premier. Now, poll...
Dec 03, 2018
Canadians should be concerned democracy is under threat in Hungary: Ignatieff
The political machinations that have recently forced an American university to cease operations in Hungary should serve as a warning about the growing global threat of authoritarian regimes, current s...
Dec 03, 2018
Canadian astronaut Saint-Jacques 'astounded' by voyage to space station
LONGUEUIL, Que. - Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques boarded the International Space Station Monday afternoon, declaring himself “astounded” by the journey and excited for the discover...
Dec 03, 2018
