Category Archives: Canada
Gun policy a stand-in for other issues in crowded Conservative leadership race
OTTAWA - The Armalite-15 is one of the most infamous firearms of the modern era, used in at least four mass shootings in the U.S. in recent years. So eyebrows were raised recently when Conservative le...
Mar 18, 2017
Alberta PC supporter arrested, charged with assault at leadership convention
CALGRY, Alta. - A former organizer with Jason Kenney’s campaign has been charged with common assault at the Alberta PC party’s leadership convention. Calgary police confirm Alan Hallman wa...
Mar 18, 2017
Amber Alert for 8-year-old boy from Embrun, Ont., cancelled, police say
EMBRUN, Ont. - Ontario Provincial Police have cancelled an amber alert for an eight-year-old boy from Embrun, Ont. Police issued the alert on Saturday morning, alleging he was abducted by his father. ...
Mar 18, 2017
Top economies yield to US, drop no-protectionism pledge
BADEN-BADEN, Germany - The world’s top economic powers dropped a pledge to oppose trade protectionism amid pushback from the Trump administration, which wants trade to more clearly benefit Ameri...
Mar 18, 2017
Machines replacing workers: fed budget to look at historic economic challenge
WASHINGTON - Next week’s Canadian federal budget will raise concern about workers being displaced en masse by new technologies. It’s arguably an under-told story of the last U.S. election ...
Mar 18, 2017
Documents raise worries about the rise of machines, loss of jobs
Federal officials were warned over the summer that machines are going to replace more jobs in the workforce in the coming years and that will require a rethink of how government helps the unemployed. ...
Mar 18, 2017
Of stars, senators and so-called inclusive growth: federal politics this week
OTTAWA - The cult of celebrity that has seized Canadian politics was on full display this week. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in New York for March break, wowed an audience stacked with top diplomats...
Mar 18, 2017
B.C. Mounties investigating 3 deaths in northeastern community of Moberly Lake
CHETWYND, B.C. - The RCMP are investigating the deaths of three people in the remote northeastern B.C. community of Moberly Lake. Investigators say Mounties from the Chetwynd detachment discovered the...
Mar 18, 2017
Alberta Progressive Conservatives pick Jason Kenney as new leader
CALGARY - Former MP Jason Kenney won the leadership of Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives in a decisive first ballot victory Saturday on a promise to dissolve the storied party and revitalize t...
Mar 18, 2017
Mourners gather in Quebec for funeral of RCMP constable killed in collision
SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, Que. - Dozens of Mounties dressed in red tunics and Stetsons marched under blue skies on Saturday to honour an RCMP officer they remembered as a “gentle giant” an...
Mar 18, 2017