Category Archives: Canada
New infrastructure ads make debut with Liberals hoping no one sees Grit red
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are trying to tune out the temptation to inject partisanship into advertising on their vaunted infrastructure program with new signs that have more green, blue and orange...
Feb 17, 2017

Ways to gauge Canada's commitment to NATO beyond just spending: Trudeau
BERLIN - Canada’s indifference to the ever-present push for more NATO spending was laid bare Friday in Germany as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau all but shrugged off Donald Trump’s push to ...
Feb 17, 2017
A selection of comments sent to Liberal MP Iqra Khalid over a racism motion
Liberal MP Iqra Khalid introduced a motion in Parliament this week to combat racism and Islamophobia. During debate, the MP from Mississauga, Ont., read out some of the messages she has received from ...
Feb 16, 2017
BlackBerry says it met all obligations to employees at centre of class action
OTTAWA - BlackBerry says it has met all of its obligations to employees who allege in a proposed class-action lawsuit that they lost severance entitlements after being transferred to another employer....
Feb 16, 2017
The Thursday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Feb. 16 --- BUS DRIVER FATALLY STABBED FACED SEX CHARGES: A Winnipeg bus driver who was stabbed to death on the job this week was facing charges of sexual a...
Feb 16, 2017
Watchdog chastises RCMP for poor reporting in missing-persons cases
OTTAWA - An independent watchdog has uncovered shoddy reporting by RCMP officers in northern British Columbia that makes it impossible to tell whether many missing-persons cases were properly investig...
Feb 16, 2017

A jaw-dropping Trump news conference, summarized: 13 memorable moments
WASHINGTON - Donald Trump held his first lengthy press conference as U.S. president and it was the stuff of political legend. There were jaw-dropping moments. Nuggets of news. Flat-out falsehoods. Swi...
Feb 16, 2017
College of Family Physicians calls for review of Safe Third Country Agreement
OTTAWA - A physician’s organization wants a review of an agreement that it says is preventing refugees coming from the U.S. to seek asylum in Canada. The College of Family Physicians of Canada s...
Feb 16, 2017
Douglas Garland arrested more than 2 weeks after couple, grandson disappeared
CALGARY - Douglas Garland, 57, was found guilty Thursday on three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Alvin and Kathy Liknes and their grandson Nathan O’Brien. Here’s a timeline...
Feb 16, 2017

Trump vs. U.S. intelligence? Intrigue abounds, and it starts with Russia
WASHINGTON - A historic clash may be erupting between the intelligence apparatus of the United States and the country’s democratically elected president, with the high-level intrigue linked to q...
Feb 16, 2017