Category Archives: Canada
Kenney dismisses Leitch position on screening immigrants for 'anti-Canadian values'
CALGARY - Federal Conservative leadership candidate Kellie Leitch hasn’t thought through her controversial position on screening immigrants for “anti-Canadian values,” former Tory im...
Sep 09, 2016
Judge won't reinstate CRTC commissioner pending his legal fight over firing
TORONTO - A former commissioner of Canada’s broadcast regulator has lost his bid for reinstatement pending a court fight over his firing. In a decision Friday, Federal Court Judge Anne Mactavish...
Sep 09, 2016
B.C. Mountie charged after pedestrian accident claimed five-year-old boy
VICTORIA - An RCMP officer has been charged with driving without due care and attention a year after a five-year-old boy was killed at a Penticton, B.C., intersection. The B.C. Criminal Justice Branch...
Sep 09, 2016
Oppositional disorder, China, cable TV: 3 things in federal politics this week
OTTAWA - It was a week of semantic satiation in Ottawa, with politicos parsing “anti-Canadian values” so many times that the phrase seemed to become almost meaningless. Conservative leader...
Sep 09, 2016
Trans-Pacific Partnership would give $4.3B boost to economy, federal study says
OTTAWA - A new federal government study projects that Canada would generate more than $4 billion in long-term GDP gains if it joins the Trans-Pacific Partnership - but stands to take a $5 billion-plus...
Sep 09, 2016
After 53 years on the job, record-holding weather forecaster set to retire
HALIFAX - For the rest of this month, Peter Coade will be setting a world record every day. The 74-year-old Halifax-based weatherman has announced he plans to retire Sept. 30, more than three years af...
Sep 09, 2016
Imperial Oil looking at selling Norman Wells oil assets in Northwest Territories
CALGARY - Imperial Oil is looking at selling its Norman Wells oil assets in the Northwest Territories. The Calgary-based company says while a definitive decision has not been made, it recognizes the s...
Sep 09, 2016
Newfoundlanders to gather to commemorate 15th anniversary of 9/11
GANDER, N.L. - Fifteen years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, a Newfoundland town that hosted nearly 7,000 plane passengers will pause to reflect on the tragedy and their unexpected connection to it....
Sep 09, 2016
Two Kitimat residents hope to save birds by clawing back house-cat freedom
KITIMAT, B.C. - A proposal by two residents of Kitimat, B.C., could send fur flying as they seek civic regulations on house cats. Laurel Woodhill and Hilda Littman are appealing to Kitimat council to ...
Sep 09, 2016
Commons finance committee told Liberals will table CPP bill in coming weeks
OTTAWA - Parliament will have a say this fall on the proposed expansion of the Canada Pension Plan as the Liberals signalled today that new legislation to implement the changes will be coming in Octob...
Sep 09, 2016