Category Archives: Canada
Five stories in the news today, Sept. 21
Five stories in the news today from The Canadian Press --- CHINESE PREMIER ARRIVES FOR FOUR-DAY CANADIAN VISIT Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrives in Ottawa today to begin a four-day Canadian visit, wh...
Sep 21, 2016
Researchers: Canadian firm helping Bahrain censor the web
LONDON - Researchers have identified a Canadian company at the centre of a small Arab nation’s online censorship system - a finding that sits awkwardly with Ottawa officials’ public suppor...
Sep 21, 2016
Donald Trump as president can work with Canada despite Trudeau comments: Steve Forbes
MONTREAL - Comments made by Justin Trudeau to the United Nations on Tuesday shouldn’t prevent Donald Trump from working with the prime minister should he become U.S. president, says well-known A...
Sep 21, 2016
The royals are coming: A timeline of memorable visits to Canada over the years
VANCOUVER - Prince William and his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, are set to visit British Columbia with their two young children, Prince George and Princess Charlotte. The House of Windsor has a clo...
Sep 21, 2016
Prince William's visit to B.C. draws memories of frenzied 1998 trip
VANCOUVER - The screams were deafening. It was March 24, 1998, and hundreds of teenage girls were crammed behind barriers outside a suburban Vancouver high school. The girls weren’t squealing fo...
Sep 21, 2016
DNA tests confirm second switched-at-birth case in northern Manitoba
NORWAY HOUSE, Man. - A second set of DNA tests have confirmed that two men were switched at birth at a hospital in northern Manitoba in 1975. Former Manitoba aboriginal affairs minister Eric Robinson ...
Sep 21, 2016
'No going back': Tory MP Jason Kenney tweets his resignation letter
OTTAWA - Calgary Conservative Jason Kenney is officially stepping down as an MP this week. Kenney tweeted a photo of his resignation letter, dated Tuesday, to Speaker Geoff Regan, in which he says he ...
Sep 20, 2016
Ministers, PMO staffers get $1.1M in expenses for relocating to Ottawa
OTTAWA - Taxpayers forked out $1.1 million to move some four dozen political staffers to Ottawa after Justin Trudeau’s Liberals won power last fall. That includes just over $220,000 in relocatio...
Sep 20, 2016
WestJet reaches deal to fly Suncor employees to Northern Alberta oilsands operations
CALGARY - WestJet (TSX:WJA) has reached a multi-year deal with Suncor Energy (TSX:SU) to fly employees and contractors to and from its oilsands operations in Northern Alberta beginning in early Novemb...
Sep 20, 2016
Friend questions police investigation after missing woman found dead in B.C.
A family friend of a Saskatchewan woman found dead in a forested area of British Columbia hopes a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women will look into why police publicize some m...
Sep 20, 2016