Category Archives: Canada
B.C. election: Key developments from Day 25
VANCOUVER - A look at some key developments from Day 25 of the B.C. election campaign for each of the parties: Liberals: - Liberal Leader Christy Clark’s bid to ban or tax thermal coal received ...
May 05, 2017

Search on for B.C. fire chief who may have been swept away in swollen creek
CACHE CREEK, B.C. - The RCMP says the fire chief of Cache Creek in British Columbia’s Interior is missing and may have been swept away in a swollen creek. Searchers, including the Kamloops Searc...
May 05, 2017
Crown defends reliability of evidence in final day of B.C. polygamy trial
CRANBROOK, B.C. - The trial of two fundamentalist church leaders charged with polygamy wrapped up in B.C. Supreme Court on Friday with the Crown arguing the bulk of marriage and personal records enter...
May 05, 2017

The Friday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Friday, May 5 --- MANY REGIONS BRACING FOR WEEKEND FLOODING: Persistent, steady rains soaking swaths of Central and Eastern Canada that have already endured record pr...
May 05, 2017
Defence, global warming and mortgages: how federal politics touched us this week
OTTAWA - When is an “architect” not an architect? That question, which spurred many a conversation this week on Parliament Hill, was far from funny to Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, who s...
May 05, 2017
Flow of defence funding constricted, even when there's money: DND figures
OTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan complained earlier this week about how years of underfunding has impacted the Canadian Armed Forces, but not even when money has been set aside for the military...
May 05, 2017
B.C.'s Clark thanks Trudeau for considering ban, tax on thermal coal
VANCOUVER - British Columbia Premier Christy Clark’s request to ban or heavily tax thermal coal from the United States is gaining traction with the federal government. In a statement today, Clar...
May 05, 2017
TransCanada CEO says no firm timeline yet for Keystone XL, Energy East
CALGARY - TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) is still not prepared to offer a firm timeline for the completion of the Keystone XL pipeline, its top executive said on Friday, even after U.S. President Donald ...
May 05, 2017
Paid coffee breaks for employees eliminated at two Tim Hortons in Quebec
COWANSVILLE, Canada - Two paid coffee breaks of 15 minutes each are a thing of the past for employees at a pair of Tim Hortons outlets in Quebec. The owner of the shops says he has done away with the ...
May 05, 2017
Man born out of wedlock can't inherit from grandmother, Ontario court rules
A man who was born out of wedlock has been denied a share of his grandmother’s estate after an Ontario court found the law at the time the woman’s will was made excluded children born outs...
May 05, 2017