Category Archives: Canada
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

TransCanada makes new application to U.S. State Department for Keystone XL
CALGARY - TransCanada Corp. has officially revived the once-dead Keystone XL pipeline with a new application for a presidential permit. Thursday’s application came two days after U.S. President ...
Jan 26, 2017
Health money is on the table, up to provinces whether to take it: Trudeau
WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says tens of billions in federal health transfer payments are there for the taking if the provinces want them. He also reiterated that Ottawa is offering an ad...
Jan 26, 2017
Details of 12 recommendations from 'Shattered Mirror' report on Canada's media
OTTAWA - A report from the Public Policy Forum, authored by veteran journalist Ed Greenspon, is urging dramatic changes to help support the Canadian news industry as it struggles with sharp declines i...
Jan 26, 2017
Saskatoon library refuses to let Conservative leadership candidate hold meeting
OTTAWA - A public library has told a Conservative leadership candidate he can’t use their facility to host a meet-and-greet with pro-life supporters because the event’s “controversia...
Jan 26, 2017

Deportation order issued for American fugitive known as 'Godfather of Grass'
MONTREAL - An American man known as the “Godfather of Grass” is not eligible to remain in Canada and is to be deported, the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada ruled Thursday. John Rob...
Jan 26, 2017
Ontario medical regulator wins appeal against own committee's penalty on doctor
TORONTO - Ontario’s medical regulator has won an appeal of a penalty imposed by its own discipline committee after decrying the independent panel’s “demonstrably unfit” punishm...
Jan 26, 2017
MP who brought forward Wynn's Law disappointed PM is 'in the dark' about bill
ST. ALBERT, Alta. - An MP who is championing a bill named after an Alberta RCMP officer killed on the job says it’s “inexcusable” that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had no idea about...
Jan 26, 2017

One shuffle leads to another: Trudeau names nine new parliamentary secretaries
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is adding nine new names to the ranks of parliamentary secretaries for the Liberal government. They include Ginette Petitpas Taylor, who is now parliamentary sec...
Jan 26, 2017