Category Archives: Canada

Federal NDP leader says Alberta sovereignty act 'a distraction' from real problems
CALGARY - Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Alberta's proposed sovereignty act is undemocratic and an unwelcome distraction from the struggles residents of the province are facing. After a meeting...
Dec 02, 2022

Inuit leader says he can't support bill creating national reconciliation council
OTTAWA - The president of a national Inuit organization says he cannot support federal legislation to create a national reconciliation council. The legislation which will create a board of directors t...
Dec 02, 2022

Ontario woman upset after encountering barriers when reporting sex assault in Quebec
MONTREAL - An Ottawa woman says her experience of trying to report a sexual assault that happened in another province led to a "convoluted" back-and-forth between police forces that has made her recon...
Dec 02, 2022

Shooting survivor objects to firearm coalition's 'disrespectful' sales promotion
OTTAWA - A mass shooting survivor and spokeswoman for gun-control group PolySeSouvient says it is "incredibly disrespectful" for firearm rights advocates to invoke the group's name in a merchandise sa...
Dec 02, 2022

'Major flaw': Judge blames police security plan in 2012 Quebec election shooting
MONTREAL - A Superior Court judge says the police security plan for Quebec's 2012 election night had a "major flaw" that permitted a gunman to carry out a deadly attack. Justice Philippe Blanger has a...
Dec 02, 2022

Ottawa trailing in protection of Indigenous women and girls: federal minister
OTTAWA - The minister for Crown-Indigenous relations says the federal government is trailing in its responsibility to protect Indigenous women and girls, despite allocating money toward the issue. Mar...
Dec 02, 2022

Newly sanctioned Iranians include Toronto gym denizen
OTTAWA - Canada is sanctioning more Iranian officials, including a senior military official spotted earlier this year at a Toronto-area gym. Morteza Talaei, Tehran's former police chief and a former g...
Dec 02, 2022

Government to un-redact text messages, notes of PMO staff at Emergencies Act inquiry
OTTAWA - Lawyers for "Freedom Convoy" organizers have won their bid to get access to unredacted versions of 20 documents at the Public Order Emergency Act. Lawyer Brendan Miller applied to have the pu...
Dec 02, 2022

Little change on the jobs front in November
The economy added a modest 10-thousand jobs in November,making for little change in employment across the board. Prince George's jobless rate climbed to 4.2 percent last month from 3.5 percent the pre...
Dec 02, 2022

Four years after Meng Wanzhou's arrest, U.S. moves to drop remaining indictment
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Justice is asking a New York judge to dismiss the remaining indictment against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou. Four years to the day since the Chinese tech scion was...
Dec 02, 2022