Category Archives: Canada
The Tuesday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, May 2 --- EXPEL MEREDITH, SENATE ETHICS COMMITTEE SAYS: The Senate ethics committee is recommending that disgraced Sen. Don Meredith be expelled for engaging...
May 02, 2017
A brief history of Canada's notwithstanding clause and how it came to be
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government says it will invoke the notwithstanding clause of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms so it can keep funding non-Catholic students attending Catholic schools. Premi...
May 02, 2017
Gas leak forces evacuation near Parliament Hill
OTTAWA - Police and fire services have reopened streets near Parliament Hill that were evacuated Tuesday afternoon due to a gas leak. The leak was thought to have been caused by construction in the ar...
May 02, 2017
Man convicted of sexually assaulting daughter for close to a decade
A man who argued in an Ontario court that he was simply being a “touchy feely” father when he regularly pinned his daughter under him - face down - and ground his genitals on her over roug...
May 02, 2017
Nova Scotia election roundup
HALIFAX - (NSElxn) Nova Scotia’s Tories and governing Liberals are trading accusations over their treatment of female candidates. Premier Stephen McNeil has praised his government’s record...
May 02, 2017
B.C. Liberal leader's encounter with woman goes viral on social media
MERRITT, B.C. - A brief encounter between Liberal Leader Christy Clark and a woman who said she would never vote for her is continuing to reverberate in British Columbia’s election campaign. The...
May 02, 2017
Sajjan pulls out of fundraiser for veterans amid Afghan battle controversy
OTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan on Tuesday bowed out of an annual fundraising event originally set up for veterans of the war in Afghanistan, an event whose main beneficiaries include military...
May 02, 2017
Vancouver home sales slide nearly 26% last month, condo and townhouse demand rise
VANCOUVER - The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says the number of home sales slid last month by nearly 26 per cent year-over-year while prices continued to climb. Residential property sales in...
May 02, 2017
Conservative MP decries 'ridiculous' non-response from PM on ethics probe
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has repeatedly said he is happy to co-operate with the federal ethics commissioner and answer any questions she might have about his controversial Caribbean vaca...
May 02, 2017
Researchers ponder why new dinosaur species had feathers but could not fly
EDMONTON - The discovery of a new species of bird-like dinosaur is raising questions about the creature’s evolution and why it had feathers when it couldn’t actually fly. Researchers study...
May 02, 2017