Category Archives: Canada
Ontario to require disclosure of pharma payments to health professionals
TORONTO - Wide-ranging legislation introduced Wednesday by the Ontario government will require public disclosure of payments that pharmaceutical companies make to doctors, increase inspections for spl...
Sep 27, 2017
Democrats would prefer Canadian labour chapter in new NAFTA: congressman
OTTAWA - The U.S. should join Canada in pushing for higher labour standards in Mexico in the new North American Free Trade Agreement, said a Democratic lawmaker, or else risk a rough ride getting the ...
Sep 27, 2017
'A huge boon:' Alberta town hopes to pull new kind of energy from old gas well
EDMONTON - An Alberta town is planning to pull a different kind of energy from the abandoned oil and gas wells that ring its outskirts. Hinton, west of Edmonton on the edge of the Rocky Mountains, is ...
Sep 27, 2017
Creating new Indigenous Services department more effective in long term: CMHC
OTTAWA - The need to establish a new Indigenous Services ministry could complicate First Nations housing in the short term, but the system will be more streamlined and effective in the long haul, says...
Sep 27, 2017
U.S. court tosses appeal from B.C. woman falsely labelled a terrorist
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia woman has hit a dead end in her quest for compensation from the Canadian government, whom she accuses of falsely branding her a terrorist and an arms dealer to American ...
Sep 27, 2017
U.S. swears in new ambassador to Canada, amid rising trade tensions
WASHINGTON - The United States has just sworn in its next ambassador to Canada at a moment of trade tensions between the countries, with mushrooming disputes running parallel with the renegotiation of...
Sep 26, 2017
Saskatchewan's top Mountie defends decision not to chase truck involved in crash
SASKATOON - The head of Saskatchewan’s RCMP is defending the decision to not chase a stolen truck involved in a fatal collision last week. Assistant commissioner Curtis Zablocki told a provincew...
Sep 26, 2017
Visiting governors of Virginia and Maryland say Trump bluster hurts NAFTA talks
TORONTO - Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe says protectionist rhetoric coming out of the White House is only hurting ongoing renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. McAuliffe, a Democra...
Sep 26, 2017
Pilot narrowly avoids crash with glider on Vancouver-to-Chicago flight
VANCOUVER - A passenger aboard a flight from Vancouver to Chicago says there were some tense moments as the pilot swerved to avoid crashing into a smaller aircraft. Callum Snape was flying on a United...
Sep 26, 2017
The Tuesday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Sept. 26 --- INQUIRY INTO MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN HOLDS HEARINGS: A second set of hearings began Tuesday into murdered and missing Indigenous w...
Sep 26, 2017
