Category Archives: Canada
Message massage: feds wrestled with infrastructure bank narrative, too
OTTAWA - Before its controversial tax proposals triggered a bitter war of words this summer, Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s department was waging a similar communications battle over another co...
Oct 11, 2017
Livelihoods versus technology: the future of Quebec's control over taxi industry
MONTREAL - The head of one of the companies offering financing for taxi permits in Montreal insists there is still a market for the much-devalued commodity. The price of a permit has decreased almost ...
Oct 11, 2017
Trudeau still bullish on NAFTA, but admits Canada is 'ready for anything'
WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau emerged from a day of meetings in the U.S. capital Wednesday continuing to champion a continental trade deal that many around him suggest may be doomed. But ...
Oct 11, 2017
Quebec premier names 'historic' anglophone affairs minister in cabinet shuffle
MONTREAL - When Philippe Couillard was aspiring to be Quebec Liberal leader, he and Kathleen Weil met with members of the province’s main English-speaking advocacy group to discuss its wish for ...
Oct 11, 2017
Proposed sterilization lawsuit filed in Saskatoon court over tubal ligations
SASKATOON - A proposed class action lawsuit against Canada's attorney general, the Saskatchewan government, the province's health regions and doctors who allegedly coerced Indigenous women to undergo ...
Oct 10, 2017
Thompson Rivers University vice-president died of accidental overdose: family
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - The family of a British Columbia university executive who died suddenly last month says his death was caused by an accidental overdose. Relatives of Christopher Seguin say in a statem...
Oct 10, 2017
Male, female suspects in custody in quadruple southern Alberta homicide
Calgary police have a man and a woman in custody and say charges are pending in a quadruple homicide last summer. The remains of Glynnis Fox, 36, her sister Tiffany Ear, 39, and Cody Pfeiffer, 25, wer...
Oct 10, 2017
Coroner's service says three bodies were found after fire in Nanaimo, B.C.
NANAIMO, B.C. - The bodies of three people have been found in a burning home in Nanaimo, B.C. RCMP say fire crews were called to the home around 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Mounties say two adults and a se...
Oct 10, 2017
Police confirm body found in B.C. woods is that of missing Australian hiker
CHILLIWACK, B.C. - The RCMP have confirmed a body found at the base of a waterfall near Agassiz, B.C., is that of a missing hiker from Australia. Sophie Dowsley and her partner, 44-year-old Greg Tiffi...
Oct 10, 2017
PM talks Donald Trump at Washington gala as first daughter Ivanka looks on
WASHINGTON - With Ivanka Trump looking on, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau explained why he’s hoping to get her father to include progressive ideas like protections for women, the environment, and...
Oct 10, 2017
