Category Archives: Canada
Shell weighs options of two kilometres of dropped pipe near abandoned wellhead
HALIFAX - Shell Canada may have abandoned the first of its deepwater wells off Nova Scotia, but questions remain on what to do about an undersea coil of steel pipes - each weighing at least 20 tonnes ...
Sep 22, 2016
Maryam Monsef, Canada's first Afghan cabinet minister, says she was born in Iran
OTTAWA - A longtime refugee advocate says stories such as that of Liberal MP Maryam Monsef are not uncommon as families fleeing war and violence reconstruct their past in a new land. Monsef, widely to...
Sep 22, 2016
Find alternatives to harmful practice of jailing child migrants: report
OTTAWA - A new report by human rights researchers urges Canada to urgently find alternatives to locking up child migrants, saying the practice has a harmful and lasting effect on already vulnerable ne...
Sep 22, 2016
P.E.I. schools reopen after bomb threat prompts provincewide evacuation
CHARLOTTETOWN - Schools across P.E.I. reopened Thursday after all were evacuated over a bomb threat that police determined was not credible. P.E.I. Premier Wade MacLauchlan says his government will ta...
Sep 22, 2016
Easy familiarity with Trudeau, Li as two sides talk free trade, death penalty
OTTAWA - Canada and China are launching exploratory talks towards a free trade agreement, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday during a visit that saw the Chinese premier publicly defend his co...
Sep 22, 2016
Number of EI beneficiaries jumps in July due to changes for hard-hit areas
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the number of people receiving employment insurance payments climbed 4.4 per cent from June to July as changes to extend benefits for those in hard-hit areas kicked in....
Sep 22, 2016
Baloney Meter: Have Liberals 'invested more' than Tories did in five years?
OTTAWA - “We’ve invested more in infrastructure in 10 months than the Conservatives did in five years.” - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. — The Liberals returned to federal offi...
Sep 22, 2016
Five stories in the news today, Sept. 22
Five stories in the news today from The Canadian Press --- MOVING KEY TRUDEAU AIDES COST MORE THAN $200K: REPORT A report in the Globe and Mail says taxpayers were billed more than $200,000 in moving ...
Sep 22, 2016
Top two PMO aides apologize for controversy over moving expenses
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau’s two top aides are repaying a “significant portion” of the $207,000 they received for moving expenses, hoping to douse a controversy that has plagued the Lib...
Sep 21, 2016
Metis toddler removed from B.C. foster parents, to be moved to Ontario later
VANCOUVER - A British Columbia foster mother says there are no words to describe her loss after the provincial government removed a Metis toddler she has raised almost since birth from her care. The w...
Sep 21, 2016