Category Archives: Canada
Feds postpone initial Access to Information reforms, cite need to 'get it right'
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is delaying promised Access to Information reforms that would bring ministerial offices under the openness law, saying it needs more time to get right what it describes...
Mar 21, 2017
Five stories in the news today, March 21
Five stories in the news for Tuesday, March 21: --- TRUMP SAYS HE WANTS TO TALK NAFTA SOON U.S. President Donald Trump wants to shift his focus to renegotiating trade deals, after a bumpy patch marked...
Mar 21, 2017
Ontario to push for Canadian exemption to New York state Buy American policy
TORONTO - Two Ontario cabinet ministers were in New York state to urge legislators to exempt Canada from a Buy American policy it plans to introduce, warning that it could lead to trouble on both side...
Mar 21, 2017
Cancer Society urges Alberta to proclaim indoor tanning ban law
passed in 2015
EDMONTON - The Canadian Cancer Society is urging the Alberta government to finally enact legislation to ban young people from using indoor tanning beds. The Skin Cancer Prevention (Artificial Tanning)...
Mar 21, 2017
Trump says he wants to shift focus to renegotiating NAFTA, tax cuts
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump has signalled his desire to shift his focus to renegotiating trade deals like NAFTA, after a bumpy patch marked by controversy involving Russia and internal de...
Mar 20, 2017
Man who beat, raped, and lit woman on fire has no pattern of brutality: doctor
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A psychologist says a man who beat, raped and then set a woman on fire is not necessarily at high risk to reoffend. Dr. Terry Nicholaichuk testified Monday at a hearing to deter...
Mar 20, 2017
Manitoba tables bill to freeze public-sector wages
WINNIPEG - Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government faced protesting students and the threat of a labour lawsuit Monday as it moved to freeze public-sector wages and raise post-secondary t...
Mar 20, 2017
Too soon to put Canadian price tag on Trump's immigration overhaul, MPs told
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is examining whether the fallout from U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive orders on immigration will require more cash to be spent north of the border. But bo...
Mar 20, 2017
Lawsuit claims publicly funded ads boosting B.C. Liberal Party ahead of election
VANCOUVER - Two Vancouver lawyers have filed a proposed class-action lawsuit against the British Columbia government and the governing Liberal party alleging misuse of taxpayer dollars for partisan ad...
Mar 20, 2017
Fisheries committee calls for more study of East Coast cod, capelin stocks
OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee is urging the Fisheries Department to conduct annual studies of the northern cod population off Newfoundland and Labrador to track its recovery. The MPs also urge...
Mar 20, 2017