Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Friday, Oct. 13 --- MORNEAU TO ANNOUNCE CHANGES TO TAX PLAN: The Trudeau government is going to retool its controversial small business tax reform proposals. Finance ...

VANCOUVER - Ottawa’s decision to approve the Trans Mountain pipeline was made on a broad base of evidence, a lawyer for Alberta’s attorney general has told the Federal Court of Appeal. Dor...

OTTAWA - Any hope the Liberals had of a quiet Thanksgiving break melted away quickly this week, even with MPs back in their ridings and all the party leaders politicking in distant places. The hullaba...

VICTORIA - British Columbia has introduced pollution prevention regulations to hold transport companies moving petroleum products across the province responsible for the costs of responding to and cle...

HALIFAX - A private member’s bill proclaiming Oct. 15 as Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Day has been unanimously passed by the Nova Scotia legislature. The legislation was tabled this week ...

EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says the federal government is being unfair in the way it assesses pipeline projects, but her government will not go to court for now to try to make it right. ...

WINNIPEG - The federal government has issued an ultimatum to the owners of a broken rail line that has cut off the town of Churchill in northern Manitoba - fix it within 30 days or face an $18.8-milli...

OTTAWA - The man accused of making ransom demands during journalist Amanda Lindhout’s kidnapping in Somalia told two undercover RCMP officers he received $10,000 for his role. In Ontario Superio...

FREDERICTON - Midwives in New Brunswick have begun seeing their first patients - becoming one of the last provinces to provide publicly funded and regulated midwifery services. Only Prince Edward Isla...

TORONTO - A “touchy-feely” anesthesiologist handed a 10-year sentence for sexually assaulting 21 sedated women during surgery has failed to have his conviction overturned. In a decision Fr...