Category Archives: Canada
Ontario Human Rights Commission releases updated policy before pot legalization
TORONTO - Employers are required to do what they can to accommodate medical marijuana users as well as those addicted to pot but that doesn’t give employees carte blanche to show up at work ston...
Kayla Derkach Oct 11, 2018
A correction to the Tug-Aground-Lawsuit story
VANCOUVER - In a story published Wednesday, The Canadian Press said the Heiltsuk incurred costs associated with testing and its investigation in the millions of dollars. In fact, the First Nation says...
Kayla Derkach Oct 11, 2018

Bill Blair launches consultations on possible ban on handguns, assault weapons
OTTAWA - Border Security Minister Bill Blair is launching a national public conversation about whether Canada should ban handguns and assault weapons. Blair announced today he will lead a series of pu...
Andrew Snook Oct 11, 2018
Ontario Human Rights Commission releases updated policy before pot legalization
TORONTO - Employers are required to do what they can to accommodate medical marijuana users as well as those addicted to pot but that doesn’t give employees carte blanche to show up at work ston...
Andrew Snook Oct 11, 2018
A correction to the Tug-Aground-Lawsuit story
VANCOUVER - In a story published Wednesday, The Canadian Press said the Heiltsuk incurred costs associated with testing and its investigation in the millions of dollars. In fact, the First Nation says...
Andrew Snook Oct 11, 2018

Justin Trudeau names Ontario lawyer, PEI Mi'kmaq chief to Senate
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named Ontario lawyer Josee Forest-Niesing and Mi’kmaq leader Brian Francis from Prince Edward Island as the newest members of the Senate. The two are t...
Andrew Snook Oct 11, 2018

Justin Trudeau names Ontario lawyer, PEI Mi'kmaq chief to Senate
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named Ontario lawyer Josee Forest-Niesing and Mi’kmaq leader Brian Francis from Prince Edward Island as the newest members of the Senate. The two are t...
Kayla Derkach Oct 11, 2018

Mother charged in death of son swept away in swollen Ontario river
The mother of a toddler swept into a raging river during flash flooding in Ontario earlier this year has been charged in her son’s death, police said Thursday. Ontario Provincial Police said the...
Kayla Derkach Oct 11, 2018
Ottawa, First Nations agree to protect N.W.T. area twice the size of Banff
FORT PROVIDENCE, N.W.T. - It’s where elders hunt and children hear their stories by the campfire. And after a deal signed Thursday between First Nations and the federal government it’s lik...
Kayla Derkach Oct 11, 2018

Man gets extra three years for strangling wife, burying body in basement
CALGARY - A man who strangled his wife and concealed her body in the family home after enduring what he described as years of domestic abuse has been given an additional three years in prison. Allan S...
Kayla Derkach Oct 11, 2018

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