Category Archives: Canada
Nunavut project to collect Inuit elder testimony on Franklin shipwreck sites
OTTAWA - Parks Canada is launching a new initiative in Nunavut to collect and share the testimony of Inuit elders who have knowledge of the doomed Franklin expedition of 1845. The project is seeking a...
Feb 13, 2018
In the news today, Feb. 13
Eight stories in the news for Tuesday, Feb. 13 --- NOTLEY GIVES FEDS DAYS TO RESOLVE PIPELINE SPAT Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she wants progress within days from Ottawa in resolving a pipeline...
Feb 13, 2018
Tougher laws needed, MMIW inquiry told: 'These monsters keep getting let out'
MONCTON, N.B. - The mother of a 16-year-old Aboriginal girl murdered in northern New Brunswick made an emotional plea Tuesday to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Gir...
Feb 13, 2018
Iran calls prof's death in prison a suicide; take a harder line, Frum urges feds
OTTAWA - A Conservative senator is calling out the federal Liberal government for its anodyne response to reports that an Iranian-Canadian university professor has died while in custody in Iran. The s...
Feb 13, 2018
B.C. government throne speech puts focus on housing, child care, affordability
VICTORIA - Premier John Horgan introduced a plan Tuesday to make life in British Columbia more affordable, but it was overshadowed by the unfolding dispute with the Alberta and federal governments ove...
Feb 13, 2018
Feds to table budget Feb. 27 as Canada faces trade, competitiveness uncertainty
OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau will introduce the federal government’s next budget on Feb. 27 as the country faces persistent uncertainty around trade and competitiveness. With the futur...
Feb 13, 2018
Payday loans a growing part of Ontario's personal insolvencies, study finds
TORONTO - A study by a Toronto-based firm says the rate of insolvent borrowers using payday loans in Ontario has grown for the sixth consecutive year. Insolvency trustee firm Hoyes Michalos & Asso...
Feb 12, 2018
PM says time to recognize anti-black racism exists, work to ensure equality
GATINEAU, Que. - Justin Trudeau says it’s time Canadians acknowledged that racism and unconscious bias against black people exist in this country. And the prime minister says it’s time to ...
Feb 12, 2018
Tougher harassment rules to apply to online spaces, says Labour Minister Hajdu
OTTAWA - The Liberal government wants its proposed stricter rules to crack down on harassment in federal workplaces to reflect the fact that colleagues no longer restrict their interactions to daytime...
Feb 12, 2018
'It could have been me:' Some farmers support murder acquittal of Gerald Stanley
Mark Pashovitz believes he and other Saskatchewan farmers are easy targets. They live in rural, isolated areas where it often takes police longer to respond to crimes. And their farm vehicles and equi...
Feb 12, 2018
