Category Archives: Canada
The Tuesday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, June 6 --- FREELAND SAYS CANADA NEEDS TO SPEND MORE ON MILITARY: Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canadians need to spend billions on “h...
Jun 06, 2017
Feds back motion in support of Trans Mountain, despite B.C. government turmoil
OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government has thrown its weight behind an opposition motion backing Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion even as political turmoil in British Columbia ...
Jun 06, 2017
Autopsy report shows Canadian killed fighting ISIL died from head injury: mother
An Ontario woman whose son was killed secretly fighting against Islamic State militants in northern Syria last year says she was devastated to finally learn the details of his death. Tina Martino says...
Jun 06, 2017
Calls continue for probe of murder-suicide involving former Canadian soldier
HALIFAX - A suicide review may have been conducted after former Canadian soldier Lionel Desmond fatally shot his wife, daughter and mother before turning the gun on himself earlier this year, but Vete...
Jun 06, 2017
Libs back motion in support of Trans Mountain, despite B.C. government turmoil
OTTAWA - The federal Liberal government has thrown its weight behind an Opposition motion backing Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, even as political turmoil in British Columbia...
Jun 06, 2017
Shell says it will proceed with B.C. energy plans despite political uncertainty
CALGARY - Royal Dutch Shell will forge ahead with its energy development plans in British Columbia regardless of the uncertainty swirling around the province’s political future, says the company...
Jun 06, 2017
Comic books, duelling and witchcraft: highlights from the Criminal Code cleanup
OTTAWA - Would you like to challenge someone to a duel? As things stand now, that would be an indictable offence and could get you up to two years behind bars - or, perhaps, in the stocks. The Liberal...
Jun 06, 2017
Ex-Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum granted parole after serving minimum
MONTREAL - Former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum was granted parole Tuesday after serving one-sixth of his one-year sentence on corruption-related charges. The provincial parole board attached sever...
Jun 06, 2017
Premier warns NDP, Greens that delaying Site C dam in B.C. could cost $600M
VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s political leaders exchanged duelling letters over the future of the Site C dam project on Tuesday, with Premier Christy Clark arguing that delays will cost hundred...
Jun 06, 2017
Vigil held in field where body of slain indigenous woman was found
WINNIPEG - Relatives and friends of a slain indigenous woman from northern Manitoba held a vigil Tuesday in a field just outside Winnipeg where her body was found. Christine Wood from the Oxford House...
Jun 06, 2017