Category Archives: Canada
Premiers, federal ministers announce new Atlantic immigration initiative
WOLFVILLE, N.S. - Atlantic Canadian companies that want to hire international students and skilled workers will soon get government help. Atlantic Canadian premiers and several federal ministers annou...
Jan 27, 2017
Longtime Quebec politician under police investigation, Couillard's office says
QUEBEC - The Quebec premier’s office is confirming that a longtime cabinet minister is under police investigation. In a statement Thursday, Premier Philippe Couillard says Pierre Paradis has bee...
Jan 26, 2017
University of Saskatchewan hires U.S. researcher, hopes to find MS cure
SASKATOON - The University of Saskatchewan will spend $8.4 million on trying to find a cure for multiple sclerosis. The school has recruited renowned American MS researcher Dr. Michael Levin, who will...
Jan 26, 2017
Tory leadership candidate pulls out of race over division in party
EDMONTON - In a tumultuous day for the political right in Alberta, talk of merging the Wildrose and the Progressive Conservative parties ramped up Thursday while one of the contenders for the Tory lea...
Jan 26, 2017
Pipelines, indigenous issues raise heat at Trudeau's Winnipeg town-hall meeting
WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced some anger over indigenous issues and oil pipeline development during a town-hall meeting Thursday in Winnipeg. Small groups of protesters scattered thro...
Jan 26, 2017
The Thursday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Jan. 26 ___ TRANSCANADA MAKES NEW KEYSTONE XL APPLICATION: TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) has submitted a new presidential permit application to the U.S. Depar...
Jan 26, 2017
Opening week of Trump presidential reality: the drama is all Mexico, no Canada
WASHINGTON - The first week of Donald Trump’s presidency promised Canada two bridges, one oil pipeline and a set of locks. Mexico got a wall. America’s two neighbours had vastly different ...
Jan 26, 2017
A chronological look at the controversial Keystone XL pipeline project
CALGARY - Since TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) first proposed the 1,897-kilometre Keystone XL pipeline, the project has been studied, stalled, slammed and hyped - all amid political pressure from interes...
Jan 26, 2017
By the numbers: Canada's federally organized homeless 'point-in-time' count
OTTAWA - The findings from the first federally organized point-in-time count of homeless people were released Thursday, revealing the depth of poverty in almost three dozen Canadian cities. The count,...
Jan 26, 2017
Leaking Saskatchewan pipeline built in 1968, no record of provincial inspections
CALGARY - A pipeline that leaked 200,000 litres of oil into a frozen pond in the southeast corner of the Saskatchewan is nearly 50 years old and there’s no record of it ever being inspected by p...
Jan 26, 2017