Category Archives: Canada

Joly crafting 'Arctic foreign policy' amid regional tensions, not a full strategy
OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly is readying an "Arctic foreign policy" aimed at preparing for a more tense time in international relations. Joly tells Bloomberg News that this will invol...
Jun 12, 2024

Court-imposed deadline to pass new citizenship law approaching next week
OTTAWA - The federal government has just a week left to make key changes to the Citizenship Act in response to a court ruling last year. The Ontario Superior Court has not yet agreed to extend the loo...
Jun 12, 2024

NDP bill to criminalize coercive control in intimate partner violence heads to Senate
OTTAWA - An NDP private member's bill that would criminalize a pattern of abuse known as coercive control is heading to the Senate. The legislation from Victoria MP Laurel Collins passed third reading...
Jun 12, 2024

Farnworth 'glad' Surrey joins completion of transition from RCMP to municipal force
VICTORIA - B.C. Solicitor General Mike Farnworth says he is pleased the City of Surrey will join in on the transition from the RCMP to a municipal police service following a council address by Mayor B...
Jun 12, 2024

Quebec police arrest three in $9-million fraud, data theft case involving Desjardins
MONTREAL - Montreal-area police have arrested three people in connection with a major data theft and $8.9-million fraud involving the co-operative financial group Desjardins. Police in Laval, Que., sa...
Jun 12, 2024

Undercover officer says accused at Coutts blockade spoke of killing police
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - An undercover officer at the border blockade at Coutts, Alta., says an accused confided in her that he expected to die in the standoff and planned to slit the throats of police. Th...
Jun 12, 2024

Canadian media a target for foreign interference: national security committee chair
OTTAWA - Foreign actors are trying to interfere with the Canadian media, and journalists and their bosses need to be aware of it, the chairman of Parliament's national security committee warned on Wed...
Jun 12, 2024

Wildfire forecast anticipates high risk for new wildfires in Prairies, N.W.T.
OTTAWA - The wildfire season has been less dire so far this year than 2023, but the risk is high across most of the country for new fires to erupt this summer. The Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Cen...
Jun 12, 2024

LeBlanc stops short of directing inquiry to name meddling MPs, at least for now
OTTAWA - Democratic Institutions Minister Dominic LeBlanc is affirming a plan to have an ongoing commission of inquiry delve into allegations about MPs colluding with foreign meddlers. But LeBlanc is ...
Jun 12, 2024

Quebec coroner calls for more domestic violence resources after murder of family
MONTREAL - A Quebec coroner is calling on the provincial government to improve services for domestic violence victims in her report on a murder case involving a man who strangled his wife and two sons...
Jun 12, 2024