Category Archives: Canada

Ottawa on track to invest less on new military kit than promised for second year
OTTAWA - For the second year in a row, the federal government is expected to spend billions of dollars less on new military equipment than promised because of a combination of good and bad news: cost ...
Kayla Derkach Nov 08, 2018

MPs need to consult women, social media companies about online behaviour: Cullen
OTTAWA - Women and social-media companies should be brought into a critical discussion about how parliamentarians conduct themselves online, says veteran NDP MP Nathan Cullen. Many MPs insist that wha...
Kayla Derkach Nov 08, 2018

Community where no one wanted to be mayor gets a mayor, but only reluctantly
WELLINGTON, P.E.I. - Nobody wanted to be mayor, but Wellington, P.E.I., got one anyway. There were no mayoral candidates in Monday’s province-wide municipal elections, so the provincial governme...
Kayla Derkach Nov 08, 2018

Community where no one wanted to be mayor gets a mayor, but only reluctantly
WELLINGTON, P.E.I. - Nobody wanted to be mayor, but Wellington, P.E.I., got one anyway. There were no mayoral candidates in Monday’s province-wide municipal elections, so the provincial governme...
Andrew Snook Nov 08, 2018

Statcan's plan to harvest private banking info on hold, pending investigation
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada’s controversial plan to harvest personal financial data without people’s consent is on hold until an investigation of the legality and intrusiveness of the proje...
Andrew Snook Nov 08, 2018

Newly renovated West Block turned over as House of Commons prepares to move
OTTAWA - The newly renovated West Block of Parliament was formally turned over to the speaker of the House of Commons Thursday as Geoff Regan accepted a large, sculpted copper key on behalf of MPs. ...
Andrew Snook Nov 08, 2018

Quebec wildlife officials probe mysterious killing of endangered caribou
MONTREAL - Wildlife officials in Quebec appealed to the public this week as they probed the suspected poaching death of an endangered caribou on the province’s Gaspe peninsula. An estimated 74 a...
Andrew Snook Nov 08, 2018

Statcan's plan to harvest private banking info on hold, pending investigation
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada’s controversial plan to harvest personal financial data without people’s consent is on hold until an investigation of the legality and intrusiveness of the proje...
Kayla Derkach Nov 08, 2018

Newly renovated West Block turned over as House of Commons prepares to move
OTTAWA - The newly renovated West Block of Parliament was formally turned over to the speaker of the House of Commons Thursday as Geoff Regan accepted a large, sculpted copper key on behalf of MPs. ...
Kayla Derkach Nov 08, 2018

Quebec wildlife officials probe mysterious killing of endangered caribou
MONTREAL - Wildlife officials in Quebec appealed to the public this week as they probed the suspected poaching death of an endangered caribou on the province’s Gaspe peninsula. An estimated 74 a...
Kayla Derkach Nov 08, 2018

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