Category Archives: Canada
Immigration detainees on hunger strike; want meeting with public safety minister
TORONTO - A group advocating for full immigration status for all migrants says more than 50 immigration detainees began refusing food Monday in two Ontario centres. The End Immigration Detention Netwo...
Jul 11, 2016
'Lives are going to be shortened:' Fort McMurray firefighters fear for health
Many Fort McMurray firefighters, unable to wear their usual air masks while battling a giant wildfire that attacked the northern Alberta city, are being screened for health problems because they spent...
Jul 11, 2016
Postal workers reject arbitration proposal
OTTAWA - The union representing some 50,000 postal workers says it’s rejecting a proposal to undergo binding arbitration in its labour dispute with Canada Post. In a statement released Thursday ...
Jul 07, 2016
Massive convoy underway to move Fort McMurray wildfire evacuees
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - A massive convoy is underway to move evacuees stranded at oilfield camps north of Fort McMurray, Alta., through the fire-ravaged community to safe areas south of the oilsands ca...
May 06, 2016
Crews scramble as Fort McMurray fire explodes in size, continues to threaten
FORT MCMURRAY, AB - A wildfire that has devastated parts of Fort McMurray has exploded in size, and officials say they are now water bombing the city to keep it from being overwhelmed by flames. Offic...
May 05, 2016
Kamloops residents narrowly escape fire in Fort McMurray
”The whole neighbourhood was like armageddon.” Kamloops man escapes Fort McMurray EDMONTON, AB - A Kamloops man who works in the oilpatch says he was in Barriere for the wildfires of 2003,...
May 04, 2016
Alberta declares state of emergency due to Fort McMurray wildfire
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - The Alberta government has declared a provincial state of emergency due to a devastating forest first that has destroyed 1,600 homes in Fort McMurray. Municipal Affairs Minister...
May 03, 2016
Liberals' maiden 'sunny ways' budget showers spending, deficits to spur growth
OTTAWA - The new Liberal government delivered a sunny ways budget Tuesday brimming with optimism and billion-dollar spending increases spread across a wide spectrum of society. But the bold effort to ...
Mar 22, 2016
Transportation ministers meet in Ottawa
OTTAWA -BC’s Minister of Transportation and Infrastructure is in Ottawa this week, hearing details of the Trudeau government’s infrastructure plans. Todd Stone says his colleagues have met...
Jan 28, 2016
Four dead, 2 critically injured in northern Saskatchewan shooting: Trudeau
LOCHE, Sask. - A student who was just returning from lunch when shots were fired at a northern Saskatchewan school Friday said his friends ran past him urging him to get out. “Run, bro, run!R...
Jan 22, 2016
