Category Archives: Canada
Five stories in the news today, Dec. 15
Five stories in the news for Thursday, Dec. 15 --- PM TRUDEAU TO MEET INDIGENOUS LEADERS Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to sit down with indigenous leaders today, the one-year anniversary ...
Dec 15, 2016
Labour board raises concerns as Liberals drag heels on appointments
OTTAWA - The federal board that resolves thorny labour disputes says its work is being compromised because it is short-handed, despite having warned the Liberals more than a year ago about the urgent ...
Dec 15, 2016
Union official says inmates hurt in riot at Saskatchewan Penitentiary
PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A lockdown was put in place Wednesday at the Saskatchewan Penitentiary following what Corrections Canada was calling “a major disturbance” and what the union represe...
Dec 14, 2016
Residents unaccounted for after fire at First Nation near London, Ont.
LONDON, Ont. - Ontario Provincial Police say the residents of a home engulfed in flames on a southern Ontario First Nation remain unaccounted for. Emergency crews were called to the home on the Oneida...
Dec 14, 2016
B.C. man nets fine for trying to smuggle baby lizards across border
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Border officials say a man from Abbotsford, B.C., has been fined after he tried to smuggle six baby lizards into Canada in his shirt. Canada Border Services Agency says in a release...
Dec 14, 2016
Edmonton councillor concerned about hard-to-spell indigenous street names
EDMONTON - The grand chief of Treaty Six First Nations says he is discouraged that an Edmonton city councillor has concerns about naming streets with indigenous words that some people may find hard to...
Dec 14, 2016
Brian Topp, Notley's chief of staff, announces departure amid other changes
EDMONTON - The chief of staff to Alberta Premier Rachel Notley is moving on. Brian Topp has announced he is leaving his post and will return to Ontario. He has accepted a fellowship with the Public Po...
Dec 14, 2016
Statoil sells oilsands assets to Athabasca Oil in deal worth up to $832 million
Calgary-based Athabasca Oil Corp. (TSX:ATH) has struck a deal to buy the northern Alberta oilsands assets of Norwegian oil giant Statoil ASA for up to $832 million. The surprise sale agreement announc...
Dec 14, 2016
Opioid prescribing down, but OD-related hospital visits continue to climb: study
TORONTO - Medically sanctioned opioid use has dropped by almost 14 per cent since national guidelines for prescribing the drugs were introduced in 2010, yet the rate of overdose-related hospital visit...
Dec 14, 2016
The Wednesday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Dec. 14 DOCUMENTS SHOW OTTAWA WATCHED U.S. CAMPAIGN WARILY: Canadian diplomats in Washington warned Ottawa earlier this year that a Donald Trump presidency...
Dec 14, 2016