Category Archives: Canada
Tories say Harper's letter doesn't change their approach to NAFTA
OTTAWA - Conservative foreign affairs critic Erin O’Toole was sitting in the departure lounge at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., last week when his eyes landed on a story he wasn...
Oct 31, 2017
Paris agreement targets leave "alarming gap" to slow climate change: UN report
OTTAWA - Canada has no immediate plans to raise its targets for cutting emissions, despite pressure from the United Nations to step it up or risk the failure of the Paris climate change agreement. In ...
Oct 31, 2017
Caribou herds and habitat continue to decline: federal report
Canada’s woodland caribou herds and the habitat they need continue to decline five years after the provinces agreed to develop strategies to preserve them, a federal study has concluded. And all...
Oct 31, 2017
Budget office predicts higher deficit this year, but sees slow decline coming
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget overseer is predicting a budget deficit in the current fiscal year that’s almost $2 billion higher than was forecast in the government’s fall fiscal updat...
Oct 31, 2017
Judge fines ThyssenKrupp $500K for elevator violations after guilty plea
TORONTO - One of the country’s pre-eminent elevator companies has been fined $500,000 for five violations of Ontario’s safety rules. ThyssenKrupp had pleaded guilty to the offences in Onta...
Oct 31, 2017
Prisons failing mentally ill, especially women, federal ombudsman says
OTTAWA - Canada’s prison service must find alternatives to locking up inmates, especially women, with serious mental illness, says the federal correctional ombudsman. The Correctional Service of...
Oct 31, 2017
Advocate calls for increased punitive damages in deaths of indigenous women
MEMBERTOU, N.S. - Canada’s legal system fails to attach enough value to the loss of an Indigenous woman’s life, according to an advocate for the family of a Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq woman...
Oct 31, 2017
Sexual harassment suit against former Ontario premier David Peterson dismissed
TORONTO - A sexual harassment lawsuit against former Ontario premier David Peterson has been dismissed, his lawyers said Tuesday, noting that the woman who launched the legal action had apologized for...
Oct 31, 2017
Black lawyer, Ontario's law society settle racial-profiling complaint
TORONTO - A Toronto lawyer who says he felt humiliated when a security guard denied him entry to the headquarters of Ontario’s law society has settled the racial profiling complaint he made to t...
Oct 31, 2017
Would-be shark rescuers 'were kind of crazy,' Nova Scotia witness says
Three men leaped into the chilly Atlantic Ocean on the weekend to try and drag a shark that became stuck in the shallows of a Cape Breton beach back out to open water. “My personal opinion is th...
Oct 31, 2017
