Category Archives: Canada
Minister urged to press Jamaica over wage deductions of migrant workers in Canada
OTTAWA - The federal labour minister was advised to fire back at a Carribean country late last year ahead of a planned meeting to discuss changes to how much temporary foreign workers in Canada were e...
Sep 28, 2018
Indigenous groups say Quebec police protest tactic a form of intimidation
MONTREAL - A controversial red badge worn by provincial police officers expressing solidarity with colleagues alleged to have abused Indigenous women drew a cautious response this week from Quebec pol...
Sep 28, 2018
Ontario seeks extension on overdose prevention sites as it decides fate of facilities
TORONTO - The Ontario government is asking Ottawa to extend an exemption that would allow overdose prevention sites to continue operating in the province while it decides the fate of the facilities. T...
Sep 28, 2018
Experts say 'the talk' for boys needs to change in the #MeToo era
It’s a family exercise so universally uncomfortable, neither parents nor children dare speak its subject by name: having “the talk.” But nearly one year into the #MeToo movement, the...
Sep 28, 2018
Experts say 'the talk' for boys needs to change in the #MeToo era
It’s a family exercise so universally uncomfortable, neither parents nor children dare speak its subject by name: having “the talk.” But nearly one year into the #MeToo movement, the...
Sep 28, 2018
NAFTA talks intensify as Freeland, negotiators push hard for breakthrough
OTTAWA - Sources say Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and her team of negotiators are engaged in an intensive, late-stage effort to get Canada back into a trilateral trade deal with the Unit...
Sep 28, 2018
NAFTA talks intensify as Freeland, negotiators push hard for breakthrough
OTTAWA - Sources say Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and her team of negotiators are engaged in an intensive, late-stage effort to get Canada back into a trilateral trade deal with the Unit...
Sep 28, 2018
Court drops bomb by ruling against constitutionality of military justice system
OTTAWA - Canada’s military justice system is in danger of being blown up following a bombshell court ruling that found the current process of trying service members for serious civil crimes - in...
Sep 28, 2018
Colombians say alleged Nova Scotia killer was a drug cartel kingpin
A Halifax-area man accused of murder was allegedly one of the kingpins of a Colombian drug cartel before he was arrested on a Venezuelan beach and extradited back to Canada, officials in South America...
Sep 28, 2018
Court drops bomb by ruling against constitutionality of military justice system
OTTAWA - Canada’s military justice system is in danger of being blown up following a bombshell court ruling that found the current process of trying service members for serious civil crimes - in...
Sep 28, 2018
