Category Archives: Canada

Drama and intrigue help trigger the most Quebec byelections in more than 30 years
MONTREAL - Death, palace intrigue and allegations of lies and corruption are at the centre of the highest number of Quebec byelections in more than 30 years. The Oct. 2 byelection in the Quebec City r...
Kayla Derkach Sep 04, 2017
B.C. NDP can't afford to break key election promise on fundraising: experts
VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s New Democrats are expected to use this week’s throne speech to broadly outline how they intend to follow through on their key election promise to get big mon...
Kayla Derkach Sep 04, 2017

NAFTA: Early sticking points encountered on numerous issues
MEXICO CITY - Negotiators have run into a series of early sticking points on nearly every major element considered key to achieving a new NAFTA agreement, according to sources who describe a dialogue-...
Kayla Derkach Sep 04, 2017
Labour movement has leapt forward in last decade, leaders say
Leaders in the labour movement say things are looking better this Labour Day than they did a decade ago, despite a shifting economic landscape that includes increased automation and ongoing trade disp...
Kayla Derkach Sep 04, 2017
Family unable to retrieve belongings after sink hole wrecks N.S. home
FALMOUTH, N.S. - Members of a Nova Scotia family awoke to the sounds of what they believed to be an intruder early Sunday morning, police said - but it turned out the threat was coming from underneath...
Kayla Derkach Sep 03, 2017
Calgary Transit officer passes out after possible drug exposure at train station
Calgary Transit says one of its peace officers was hospitalized after possibly being exposed to drugs during an incident in a light rail station. The agency says two officers responded to a call to ch...
Kayla Derkach Sep 03, 2017
Striking Swissport worker protests block traffic at Pearson Airport
TORONTO - Police say union protesters who blocked traffic access to two of the busiest terminals at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on Sunday afternoon left peacefully in the evening. Cst. Mark Fische...
Kayla Derkach Sep 03, 2017
Fentanyl screening program in Vancouver expands to overdose prevention sites
VANCOUVER - A pilot project that allows Vancouver drug users to test substances for the deadly opioid fentanyl is being expanded in an effort to reduce overdose deaths. Vancouver Coastal Health says t...
Kayla Derkach Sep 03, 2017
Wind, dry conditions fuel fast-moving wildfire near Kelowna, B.C.
KELOWNA, B.C. - Dozens of people living in southern British Columbia have been forced to leave their homes as winds fan a wildfire nearby. The Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen issued an evacu...
Kayla Derkach Sep 03, 2017
Justin Trudeau condemns North Korean missile testing, asks UN to step in
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has condemned North Korea’s latest nuclear weapon testing and is urging the United Nations to take further steps to contain the country’s nuclear proliferatio...
Kayla Derkach Sep 03, 2017

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