Category Archives: Canada
Tories raised more than Liberals in 2016, but also spent more to do it
OTTAWA - The federal Conservative party raised a million more dollars than the Liberals last year, but spent twice as much as the governing party in order to raise the cash. Annual financial reports p...
Jul 04, 2017
Saudi ambassador tells Ottawa to mind its own business in Badawi case
OTTAWA - Canada needs to start minding its own business when it comes to jailed blogger Raif Badawi, the Saudi Arabian ambassador said Tuesday. Badawi was arrested in June 2012 and later sentenced to ...
Jul 04, 2017
Saganash apologizes for plagiarism in Globe and Mail op-ed on Canada 150
OTTAWA - NDP indigenous affairs critic Romeo Saganash apologized Tuesday for having plagiarized portions of a recent newspaper column about Canada’s 150th anniversary. The column appeared in the...
Jul 04, 2017
Inside Ontario's fight to save declining barn swallows, one bird house at a time
TOWNSEND, Ont. - The long grass sways as a soft summer wind sweeps under two strange structures, blowing with it the faint smell of manure, in an otherwise empty Ontario field. Under one, which looks ...
Jul 04, 2017
A chronological look at Canadian-born Omar Khadr's legal saga
TORONTO - A look at the long legal odyssey of Canadian-born Omar Khadr: July 27, 2002: Khadr, 15, allegedly throws grenade that kills United States Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Speer during an American ...
Jul 04, 2017
Indigenous woman hit with trailer hitch in January dies from injuries
THUNDER BAY, Ont. - An Indigenous woman who was hit by a trailer hitch apparently thrown from a passing car in Thunder Bay, Ont., in January has died, police said on Tuesday. Barbara Kentner, 34, unde...
Jul 04, 2017
Rona Ambrose resigns as Conservative MP after serving for 13 years
OTTAWA - Former interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose is officially out of federal politics. Ambrose formally resigned her House of Commons seat today by way of a letter to the Speaker. Ambrose rep...
Jul 04, 2017
Top general apologizes for incident at Indigenous ceremony on Canada Day
HALIFAX - Canada’s top general has condemned the actions of a group of Armed Forces members who disrupted a spiritual event on Canada Day marking the suffering of Indigenous Peoples at a statue ...
Jul 04, 2017
Two whales suffered blunt trauma, another killed by fishing gear: vet
HALIFAX - Injuries suffered by at least two of six North Atlantic right whales found floating lifeless in the Gulf of St. Lawrence appear to be consistent with ship strikes, marine mammal experts say....
Jul 04, 2017
Proposed '11th-hour' reforms won't help Canada's inmates: B.C. lawyer
VANCOUVER - Canada’s correctional service continued to use indefinite solitary confinement for prisoners despite decades of policy-reform recommendations and a call for change from the prime min...
Jul 04, 2017