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Alberta legislature resumes; Focus on jobs and bill to punish protesters
EDMONTON - A new legislature sitting has begun with the Alberta government promising to invest directly in oil and gas, if necessary, and to pass a law that would punish people who block roads and rai...
Feb 25, 2020 L.T. Governor Lois Mitchell. (Supplied by Government of Alberta)
Analysts agree Canadian energy projects more difficult to get to completion
CALGARY - The perception that Canada is a more difficult place to build major energy projects is accurate, according to U.S. analysts, although opposition to such projects is growing in both countries...
Feb 25, 2020 Work in the oil sands -- The Canadian Press
Woodbine jockey Kazushi Kimura has high expectations for himself in 2020
TORONTO - It's been a meteoric rise for jockey Kazushi Kimura. The laurels have been steady for the 20-year-old since 2018 when he left his native Japan to ride at Toronto's Woodbine Racetrack. H...
Feb 25, 2020
Feds seek 21 months for Hot Pockets heiress in college scam
BOSTON - Prosecutors are seeking nearly two years in prison for an heiress to the Hot Pockets microwavable snack fortune who agreed to pay $300,000 to cheat the college admissions process for her daug...
Feb 25, 2020
Mississippi man convicted in shooting deaths of 8 people
MAGNOLIA, Miss. - A Mississippi jury on Tuesday convicted a man in the 2017 shooting deaths of eight people, including some of his own relatives and a deputy sheriff who responded to a domestic distur...
Feb 25, 2020
Singer who drew fire at Mar-a-Lago competent to face trial
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - A Connecticut opera singer is now mentally competent to stand trial on charges that she sped through a checkpoint outside President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, drawing gu...
Feb 25, 2020
Privacy commissioner says RCMP ignored his investigators in complaint cases
OTTAWA - The federal privacy watchdog has accused the RCMP of ignoring his office's efforts to investigate complaints about the national police force's failure to respond to i...
Feb 25, 2020
Liberal MPs defer call for immediate blockade debate at committee
OTTAWA - Liberal MPs have temporarily thwarted an attempt by a Bloc Quebecois MP to immediately debate the "Indigenous crisis" involving rail and road blockades across the country at a Commons co...
Feb 25, 2020
Manitoba premier hints at possible carbon tax deal with federal government
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is hinting at a potential breakthrough with the federal government on a carbon tax. Pallister says federal and provincial senior officials have been in cons...
Feb 25, 2020
Private clinics would harm 'ordinary' people using public system in B.C.: lawyer
VANCOUVER - A lawyer for the British Columbia government says private clinics would increase wait lists for "ordinary" people in the public system and especially harm those who are...
Feb 25, 2020