Category Archives: Canada
Pikangikum First Nation to be connected to Ontario power grid by next fall
The federal government announced up to $60 million in funding Thursday to connect a remote northwestern Ontario First Nation to the province’s power grid. Pikangikum First Nation, a community ne...
Aug 17, 2017
Scheer says he won't do interviews with the Rebel, citing editorial direction
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said Thursday he’ll do no further interviews with conservative news outlet the Rebel until it changes its editorial direction, following its coverage o...
Aug 17, 2017
Some New Brunswick lobster fishermen park boats, concerned with low prices
SHEDIAC, N.B. - Some lobster fishermen in eastern New Brunswick tied up their boats and remained onshore Thursday in a protest over the prices they’re getting for lobster. Fishermen in ports suc...
Aug 17, 2017
Figures show nearly 7,000 asylum seekers nabbed at Quebec border over six weeks
LACOLLE, Que. - Almost 7,000 asylum seekers have been intercepted at the Quebec-U.S. border in the last six weeks, authorities said Thursday. The RCMP’s Claude Castonguay said the force intercep...
Aug 17, 2017
Canadian subsidiary of French defence giant gets $5.2 billion contract
OTTAWA - The Canadian subsidiary of French defence industry giant Thales has been awarded a multibillion-dollar contract to service Canada’s new fleet of Arctic offshore patrol ships and joint s...
Aug 17, 2017
Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal in Manitoba residential school case
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will not hear an appeal in a case about whether a Manitoba institution should be considered a residential school. Two lower courts said the institution in Teulon d...
Aug 17, 2017
Last year's federal deficit smaller than government predicted: analysis
OTTAWA - A new report says last year’s federal budgetary shortfall was smaller than the government predicted last spring. The parliamentary budget officer projects Ottawa’s 2016-17 shortfa...
Aug 17, 2017
Emotional mother-and-child reunion as young former captive arrives in Winnipeg
WINNIPEG - A woman in Winnipeg tightly embraced her 12-year-old son for the first time in three years early Thursday morning when the child was reunited with his family after his liberation from Iraqi...
Aug 17, 2017
Judge orders woman facing terror charges to appear in court Monday
TORONTO - A judge has ordered a Toronto-area woman facing terror-related charges in an alleged attack at a Canadian Tire store to appear in court on Monday, by force if necessary. The order was issued...
Aug 17, 2017
StatCan revises census data to show decline in English speakers in Quebec
OTTAWA - Quebec’s anglophone population is declining, rather than booming, Statistics Canada said Thursday as the agency officially corrected a census finding that stoked political fires in Queb...
Aug 17, 2017