Category Archives: Canada

How Canada's Liberals annoyed Hillary Clinton team over fundraising
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton’s entourage expressed annoyance that Canada’s Liberal party used an Ottawa event she appeared at as a fundraising opportunity, according to an exchange from a ...
Kayla Derkach Nov 02, 2016
Conservative motion aims to force Liberal hand on policing ethics
OTTAWA - The Conservatives are hoping to hoist Justin Trudeau on his own ethical petard. The Liberals defeated the Tories in last year’s federal election thanks in part to the prime ministerR...
Kayla Derkach Nov 02, 2016
More Quebec reporters were under surveillance, this time by provincial police
MONTREAL - The controversy surrounding the surveillance of reporters in Quebec intensified Wednesday as provincial police admitted they monitored the cellphones of several prominent journalists three ...
Kayla Derkach Nov 02, 2016
N.L. man who watched his father murder his mother wants stiffer sentences
A Newfoundland man who was four years old when he saw his father brutally beat his mother to death says he’s living in fear knowing Dale Ogden is out on day parole and believes he should have re...
Kayla Derkach Nov 02, 2016
A by-the-numbers look at the federal government's latest economic update
OTTAWA - A look at the federal government’s latest economic update, by the numbers: - Deficit to rise to $25.1 billion this year, from the $23.4 billion forecast in last spring’s federal b...
Kayla Derkach Nov 02, 2016

The Wednesday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Nov. 2 MORNEAU SAYS INVESTORS WANT INFRASTRUCTURE AGENCY: Canada’s finance minister says the country needs a new agency designed to pump private doll...
Kayla Derkach Nov 02, 2016
Home school shut down amid allegations of misspending takes Alberta to court
EDMONTON - Two agencies overseeing thousands of home-schooled children in Alberta are asking a court to reverse the province’s decision to pull funding and accreditation over allegations of miss...
Kayla Derkach Nov 02, 2016
Timeline of key dates in Liberal Sudbury byelection scandal
SUDBURY, Ont. - The Ontario Provincial Police have laid Election Act bribery charges against a former top staffer of Premier Kathleen Wynne and a Liberal fundraiser. The allegations date back to a bye...
Kayla Derkach Nov 02, 2016

African-American early-voter turnout down; Obama sounds alarm bell
FORT LAUDERDALE, United States - U.S. President Barack Obama has sounded the alarm bell about an apparent decline in black voter turnout in this election, pointing to early-voting data that’s no...
Kayla Derkach Nov 02, 2016
Lawsuit claims Ottawa doctor used own sperm to impregnate fertility patients
An Ontario doctor once suspended for inseminating women with the wrong sperm at his fertility clinic is now accused of allegedly using his own biological material to impregnate certain patients who ca...
Kayla Derkach Nov 02, 2016

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