Category Archives: Canada
Ex-Mexican president Fox to PM Trudeau: Don't be 'Judas' and betray us on NAFTA
MEXICO CITY - A former Mexican president has a warning for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: Don’t abandon our country in NAFTA talks like some modern-day ”Judas.” Vicente Fox warns tha...
Nov 19, 2017
Apology to Canadians persecuted for being gay coming Nov. 28: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Martine Roy was just 20-years-old and less than a year into her chosen career as a medical assistant with the Canadian Armed Forces at CFB Borden when military police suddenly showed up at he...
Nov 19, 2017
Trudeau mulling China trip in December, free trade talks possible
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is looking at a possible trade trip to China early next month but Canada isn’t ready to launch formal free trade talks with China just yet. Canada and Chin...
Nov 19, 2017
Grassy Narrows seeks treatment centre so residents don't die away from reserve
OTTAWA - Chief Simon Fobister doesn’t have to imagine the grief and anguish and pain that decades of slow-motion mercury poisoning have wrought on the people of Grassy Narrows First Nation. Afte...
Nov 19, 2017
Abbotsford, B.C., officer didn't like guns, but didn't hesitate when call came
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - An Abbotsford, B.C., police constable killed in the line of duty was remembered as dedicated and caring, a man who had a gut-busting sense of humour and a dislike for guns. Thousand...
Nov 19, 2017
At NAFTA talks, Canada delivers a lecture on autos, not a counter-offer
MEXICO CITY - Canadian negotiators intend to provide a briefing to their American peers on how their auto proposals would devastate their own domestic industry, in an effort to reset one of the most d...
Nov 19, 2017
One person was killed in an accident during training at CFB Shilo
OTTAWA - The Canadian military has launched an investigation after a reservist died during a training accident in Manitoba on Saturday. Cpl. Nolan Caribou, who was an infantryman with the Royal Winnip...
Nov 19, 2017
Portable supplement, focus on supply to be part of new housing strategy
OTTAWA - Those struggling to keep a roof over their heads - whether looking to ease the burden of monthly rent payments or in desperate need of help to get off the streets - will find out later this w...
Nov 19, 2017
Northern Quebec police force's only female Inuit officer beating the odds
MONTREAL - Though she’s only 22, Constable Pamela Stevenson is undoubtedly one of her northern Quebec police force’s most coveted new recruits. When she joined last month straight after gr...
Nov 19, 2017
Disabled groups fight immigration law they say is 'demeaning'
TORONTO - A national advocacy group is pushing for the government to repeal immigration criteria that it calls discriminatory toward people with disabilities. The Council of Canadians with Disabilitie...
Nov 19, 2017
