Category Archives: Canada
A by-the-numbers look at foreign pensioners in Canada, and payments abroad
OTTAWA - British pensioners living in Canada are lobbying the Liberal government to make indexing their pensions to the cost of living a requirement for any future free trade deal with Britain - an ag...
Sep 19, 2016
British retirees in Canada push Liberals to fix decades-old pension fight
OTTAWA - Anne Puckridge has two medals, earned during her service to Britain in the Second World War. The 91-year-old jokes that she is still fighting - except now it is against the British government...
Sep 19, 2016
Lost in red tape: Ombudsman maps transition system for ill, injured troops
OTTAWA - The military ombudsman has, for the first time, literally mapped out the numerous hurdles which ill and injured soldiers are forced to jump as they leave the Canadian Forces and re-enter civi...
Sep 19, 2016
Grim news casts shadow over refugee conference attended by PM Trudeau
NEW YORK - The grim shadow of world events descended over a conference on refugees as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other world leaders gathered Monday to make new commitments to victims of a hist...
Sep 19, 2016
Federal government prepared to impose carbon price on provinces: McKenna
OTTAWA - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the federal government is prepared to impose a price on carbon on any province that can’t come up with their own, or a cap and trade system. ...
Sep 18, 2016
Vancouver expo shows breadth, growth of Canadian marijuana industry
VANCOUVER - A two day marijuana exhibition in Vancouver is giving people an idea of just how large and varied Canada’s cannabis industry has become - and where it could grow next. More than 100 ...
Sep 18, 2016
Autoworker union still in talks with GM as contract expiration looms
TORONTO - A spokeswoman for Unifor says there has been some progress in the union’s negotiations with General Motors. The union’s contract with the Detroit Three automakers - GM, Ford and ...
Sep 18, 2016
Halifax transgender teenager finds 'family' in football team
HALIFAX - About three months ago, Kenny Cooley nervously signed his name on a sign-up sheet to tryout for boys tackle football. His anxiety about tryouts were not that of a typical teenager. Cooley is...
Sep 18, 2016
Byelection set for Alberta to replace Conservative MP who died in March
OTTAWA - A date for a federal byelection in Alberta has been set following the death of Conservative M-P Jim Hillyer. The vote in the Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner riding will be held on Monday, Oct. 2...
Sep 18, 2016
In UN speech, PM will present his economic agenda as antidote to angry politics
NEW YORK - Justin Trudeau will use his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly this week to present his brand of economics as an antidote to the angry nationalist politics flaring up on di...
Sep 18, 2016