Category Archives: Canada

Six stories in the news for Tuesday, Feb. 15: --- PM TRUDEAU PREPARING FOR EUROPEAN VISIT Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will arrive in Europe on Thursday with free trade at the top of his agenda. He w...

VANCOUVER - Had Al Fowler known more about his rights before enrolling in British Columbia’s methadone treatment program in 2010, he may have avoided what he describes as a two-year “horro...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia is the birthplace of methadone maintenance treatment, which has existed in some form in the province for more than half a century. Here is a timeline on how the treatment ...

TORONTO - A public opinion survey used to bolster claims of widespread support for a proposed nuclear waste bunker near Lake Huron was misleading and actually found little backing for the project, cri...

CALGARY - The fate of a man charged in the deaths of a Calgary couple and their five-year-old grandson has been handed over to the jury. Justice David Gates spent more than four hours giving instructi...

VANCOUVER - A man convicted of perjury for his testimony during the trial of two men accused in the 1985 Air India bombing has been allowed to leave a halfway house and live wherever he likes. A Parol...

OTTAWA - Proposals for tax changes aimed at helping Canadian publishers fight for revenues with online news aggregators would result in a punitive “tax on advertisers,” executives from Goo...

VANCOUVER - The University of British Columbia will exclude fossil fuel companies from its low-carbon investment fund, a move being applauded by a campus group that has been pushing for divestment. Th...

VICTORIA - A former federal cabinet minister has been appointed the B.C. government’s trade envoy to try and reach a new softwood lumber deal with the United States. The province says David Emer...

WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has assured his U.S. counterpart over the phone that there might be 10,000 problems that land on his White House desk - and Canada won’t be among them....