Category Archives: Canada
EU hails entry into force of Canada trade pact
BRUSSELS - The European Union is celebrating the entry into force of a major trade agreement with Canada as a boost for multilateralism at a time when the United States is looking to renegotiate trade...
Sep 20, 2017
Vice urges RCMP to drop demand for materials if accused terrorist long dead
TORONTO - A Canadian news outlet at the centre of a closely watched media-freedom case is calling on the RCMP to drop its demand for a journalist’s background materials used for stories on a sus...
Sep 20, 2017
Forecasting groundhog Wiarton Willie dies at 13
The albino groundhog at the centre of Canada’s most high-profile weather forecasting tradition has died. Wiarton Willie, a famous contributor to Groundhog Day festivities, died on Friday, accord...
Sep 20, 2017
'No body, no parole': Alberta candidate wants law to help victims' families
EDMONTON - A would-be politician in Alberta wants Canada to adopt a “no body, no parole” law that would give killers a chance at freedom if they revealed the locations of missing victims. ...
Sep 20, 2017
Feds reviewing budgets and schedules for new resupply ships, icebreaker
OTTAWA - Canada’s multibillion-dollar plan to buy new warships for the navy isn’t the only federal shipbuilding project sailing in uncharted waters. Federal officials are reviewing the bud...
Sep 20, 2017
Suspect in Quebec Amber Alert still hospitalized, case put off one week
SAINT-JEROME, Que. - A Superior Court justice ordered a medical evaluation on Wednesday of the suspect who fled authorities last week with his six-year-old boy and who was later charged in the slaying...
Sep 20, 2017
Southern Quebec visited by 'unprecedented' number of painted lady butterflies
MONTREAL - The millions of black-and-orange butterflies that have carpeted flower beds across the Montreal area in recent days are waiting for winds to carry them south to warmer weather, according to...
Sep 20, 2017
N.S. to table new cyberbullying law, but premier warns passage may have to wait
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil is signalling his government will move cautiously on promised new cyberbullying legislation as it prepares its agenda for the legislature’s fall sess...
Sep 20, 2017
Liberal MP warns against 'class warfare' rhetoric on proposed tax changes
OTTAWA - Not everyone is on board with the way Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been going after the rich as he defends his Liberal government’s controversial tax proposals - and that includes ...
Sep 20, 2017
Bombardier workers rally in solidarity ahead of U.S. trade spat decision
An unusual scene took place Wednesday as unionized workers left their posts at Bombardier’s plant in north Toronto - not to protest stalled labour negotiations but to express solidarity with the...
Sep 20, 2017
