Category Archives: Canada
Alberta's Wildrose and PCs at odds over gay-straight alliances in schools
EDMONTON - Alberta’s two conservative parties, working on a deal to join forces, are at odds when it comes to social clubs for gay students in schools. Wildrose Leader Brian Jean says he disagre...
Apr 03, 2017
Younger sister of Tina Fontaine now missing, struggling with tragedy: family
WINNIPEG - The sister of a Manitoba teen who became one of the poster children for the issue of missing and murdered indigenous woman is now missing herself and her family says it all stems from the t...
Apr 03, 2017
Malala Yousafzai to receive Canadian citizenship, address Parliament
OTTAWA - Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai will receive her honorary Canadian citizenship in Ottawa next week. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office says the presentation will take plac...
Apr 03, 2017
List of candidates in five federal byelections
OTTAWA - Byelections were held in five federal ridings on Monday. Here are lists of the candidates: Calgary Heritage Khalis Ahmed, NDP. Bob Benzen, Conservative. Scott Forsyth, Liberal. Stephen J. Gar...
Apr 03, 2017
Family wants justice minister to reopen case of woman who died down laundry chute
REGINA - The family of a Regina woman who died after plunging 10 storeys down a hotel laundry chute wants the case reopened. Nadine Machiskinic was found at the bottom of the chute at Regina’s D...
Apr 03, 2017
The Monday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Monday, April 3 --- CEO SAYS BOMBARDIER DID ‘BAD JOB’ ON COMPENSATION: Bombardier did “a bad job” explaining its decision to raise executive c...
Apr 03, 2017
Liberal apologizes in Commons for sexist remark at committee
OTTAWA - Liberal MP Nicola Di Iorio has apologized in the House of Commons for making what was described as “a suggestive and very inappropriate” comment during a committee meeting last mo...
Apr 03, 2017
Comedian's remarks 'inappropriate': Heritage Minister Melanie Joly
OTTAWA - Comedian Russell Peters’s performance as host of the Junos on Sunday night is getting a bad review from Heritage Minister Melanie Joly. Peters, who hosted the music awards ceremony in O...
Apr 03, 2017
Ontario's first cap-and-trade auction sells out current allowances
TORONTO - Ontario’s first cap-and-trade auction sold out all current allowances, giving the new market a strong start, but the province’s environment minister warned the real test of the s...
Apr 03, 2017
Optics on Bombardier executive raises tests Liberals' promises to middle class
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau refused Monday to denounce Bombardier for enriching its executives even as the company rakes in nearly $1 billion in taxpayer money, drawing opposition charges that the Liberal...
Apr 03, 2017