Category Archives: Canada
Here are some details of the legal career of Federal Court Justice Robin Camp
CALGARY - A Canadian Judicial Council inquiry committee says a judge who asked a sexual assault complainant why she couldn’t just keep her knees together should lose his Federal Court job. Court...
Nov 30, 2016
Feds to Alberta ranchers: help is coming for herds quarantined over bovine TB
OTTAWA - The government is offering relief for Alberta ranchers caught in the bovine tuberculosis quarantine affecting parts of western Canada. Up to $16.7 million is being made available to help ranc...
Nov 30, 2016
B.C. Premier Christy Clark's five conditions for pipeline approval
VANCOUVER - British Columbia Premier Christy Clark said Wednesday the federal government is “very close” to meeting her five conditions for pipeline approval. The premier said all but two ...
Nov 30, 2016
Kinder Morgan faces more hurdles after federal OK of Trans Mountain pipeline
CALGARY - The president of Kinder Morgan Canada issued a plea to opponents of its Trans Mountain pipeline expansion on Wednesday to be “lawful and respectful” as they protest the project w...
Nov 30, 2016
CMHC president warns against scapegoating foreign buyers in housing debate
VANCOUVER - The president of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. is warning against an “us versus them” mentality in Vancouver, where he says foreign buyers are not the major factor driv...
Nov 30, 2016
Montreal activist who staged topless protest at Grand Prix wants charges stayed
MONTREAL - A Montreal-based women’s rights activist who staged a topless protest during the city’s Grand Prix festivities in 2015 was violently dragged along the pavement by security staff...
Nov 30, 2016
No liability for harm caused by '60s Scoop, federal government set to argue
TORONTO - At-risk aboriginal children placed in non-aboriginal homes during the so-called ’60s Scoop may well have suffered harm by losing their cultural identities but the federal government ca...
Nov 30, 2016
A look at the case at the heart of the Judge Robin Camp controversy
CALGARY - An inquiry committee of the Canadian Judicial Council has recommended federal Justice Robin Camp lose his job for asking a sexual assault complainant in a 2014 trial why she couldn’t k...
Nov 30, 2016
Bitumen knowledge gaps too great to assess risk of ocean spill: study
Not enough is known about the impact oilsands bitumen could have on ocean plants and animals to assess the risks of moving it through marine environments, according to a new study. “Basic inform...
Nov 30, 2016
PC teen sworn in as youngest-ever member of Ontario's legislature
A homeschooled teenager was sworn in Wednesday as the youngest-ever member of the Ontario legislature, but his socially conservative views threaten to make him the Progressive Conservatives’ pro...
Nov 30, 2016
