Category Archives: Canada
Unionized CN Rail employees issue strike notice
MONTREAL - A union representing employees at CN Rail is threatening job action to back contract demands. The Teamsters union has given the company 72 hour strike notice and could legally walk off the ...
May 27, 2017
New Conservative leader Andrew Scheer no stranger to making political history
TORONTO - Andrew Scheer is no stranger to making political history. When he first sought federal political office in 2004, he beat out the NDP candidate who at the time was the longest serving MP in t...
May 27, 2017
B.C. Supreme Court jury finds man guilty of smuggling Tamil migrants to Canada
VANCOUVER - A prosecutor says a man accused of bringing hundreds of Tamil migrants into Canada illegally in a dilapidated cargo ship nearly seven years ago has been found guilty. Crown counsel Charles...
May 27, 2017
Alicia Keys and Canada's indigenous movement share human rights award
MONTREAL - American recording artist and humanitarian Alicia Keys believes a change is coming, as people in both Canada and the United States wake up to the fight against inequality and injustice. ...
May 27, 2017
Computer beats top Chinese player at go, but will soon be unplugged
EDMONTON - A University of Alberta computing science professor says a clean sweep by a computer at a man-versus-machine competition in the ancient game of go is bittersweet. Ryan Hayward says it means...
May 27, 2017
Nova Scotia parties search for undecided voters in campaign's last weekend
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s three main party leaders fanned out across the province Saturday in a bid to sway any voters who might still be on the fence ahead of Tuesday’s provincial election....
May 27, 2017
G7 leaders agree to fight protectionism, but U.S. hedges on Paris Agreement
TAORMINA, Italy - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made his major debut on the international stage at a UN global warming conference in Paris, where the new Liberal government, crowing cheerfully that Ca...
May 27, 2017
No surprise libertarian Tory leadership candidate Maxime Bernier comes from Beauce
Back in the early settler days, Quebec City residents would quickly spot the Beauce farmers among them because they were covered in mud from the long trek up the shores of the Chaudiere River - often ...
May 27, 2017
B.C. is using taxpayer money to outlast plaintiffs in health-care trial: critic
VANCOUVER - The British Columbia government is being accused of using a vast supply of taxpayers’ dollars to win a legal war of attrition against advocates for two-tier health care by the man wh...
May 27, 2017
PM Trudeau and U.S. President Trump talk trade, security at G7 summit
TAORMINA, Italy - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met one-on-one with Donald Trump Saturday on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Sicily, where they talked all around an elephant in the room the size and...
May 27, 2017
