Category Archives: Canada
Sajjan to mark Peacekeepers Day at United Nations despite mission indecision
OTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is expected to face pointed questions when he travels to the United Nations next week to help commemorate those peacekeepers who have been killed in the line of...
May 17, 2017
Transgender community, NDP urge Trudeau government to change travel regulations
OTTAWA - Jennifer McCreath has a fear of flying of a different sort: a fear she won’t be allowed on board. McCreath, a 43-year-old transgender woman in St. John’s, N.L., takes issue with a...
May 17, 2017
Political stakes set to change for Opposition Conservatives under new leader
OTTAWA - Conservative members of Parliament emerged Wednesday from their final caucus meeting under the leadership of Rona Ambrose - and landed squarely in politically uncertain territory. In 10 days&...
May 17, 2017
Indigenous fashion week in Vancouver to celebrate 'cultural appreciation'
Organizers of Vancouver’s first indigenous-focused fashion week say the event will celebrate “cultural appreciation” for designers and creators who are used to seeing their work appr...
May 17, 2017
Weaver says Greens will fight pipeline, calls Clark's Liberals 'reckless'
VICTORIA - British Columbia’s three Green members will use their increased political clout to fight Kinder Morgan’s $7.4-billion Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project, party leader And...
May 17, 2017
Infrastructure bank may avoid projects with too much financial risk, Sohi says
OTTAWA - The government’s new agency for financing major construction projects might take a pass on proposals that pose too great a risk for taxpayers when they’re asked to make a private ...
May 17, 2017
Quebec woman gone missing found alive one week later in Saskatchewan
Quebec provincial police say a young woman who went missing last week has been found alive in Saskatchewan. Police said today passersby contacted authorities after recognizing Karine Major on the stre...
May 17, 2017
Answers on Russia still far away as anti-doping agency meets
MONTREAL - The lurid details - dark-of-night swapping of tainted urine samples with clean ones through a hole cut into the wall - have been confirmed by an independent investigator who delivered a 144...
May 17, 2017
Tags still hanging from clothes lead police to alleged shoplifter
BARRIE, Ont. - Police in Barrie, Ont., say tags still hanging from a man’s clothes led to his arrest on theft-related charges. They say a store security guard noticed a man allegedly putting on ...
May 17, 2017
Man charged after pickup truck goes into automatic car wash with dog in back
HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, N.L. - A man has been charged after a pickup truck went into an automatic car wash in Labrador with a dog exposed in the back. RCMP in Happy Valley-Goose Bay say they were call...
May 17, 2017