Category Archives: Canada

Five policy questions Tory leadership front-runner Pierre Poilievre hasn't answered
OTTAWA - Throughout the Conservative party's leadership race, Pierre Poilievre has campaigned on fighting inflation and the rising cost of living, as well as defending Canadians who refuse to get vacc...
Sep 08, 2022

Liberals to hike GST rebates, help with rent payments in new affordability plan
VANCOUVER - The federal government intends to temporarily hike GST rebate cheques in a bid to ease some of the hurt of inflation for lower income Canadians. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will announce...
Sep 08, 2022

Chief to speak after mass stabbing suspect dies following four-day manhunt
JAMES SMITH CREE NATION - The chief of a Saskatchewan First Nation is set to speak the day after the suspect in a deadly stabbing rampage died in police custody following a four-day manhunt. Myles San...
Sep 08, 2022

Québec solidaire is the preferred choice among province's youth, but will they vote?
MONTREAL - Gabriel-Nadeau Dubois stepped up to the lectern in a park in east-end Montreal on Wednesday, promising to deliver what he called a "transport revolution." With his forest-green suit and the...
Sep 08, 2022

New air passenger protection rules come into effect Thursday
MONTREAL - New Air Passenger Protection Regulations go into effect today. The update comes as the Canadian Transport Agency tries to close a loophole that left some passengers unable to secure cash re...
Sep 08, 2022

Edmonton police warn of man with knife as 1 killed, 2 injured in random attack
Edmonton police are warning people of a man with knife after one person was killed and two were injured. They say the attacks are believed to be random. Residents, pedestrians and motorists are being ...
Sep 07, 2022

Timeline of the police response to deadly stabbings in Saskatchewan
JAMES SMITH CREE NATION - RCMP say two men went on a stabbing rampage in Saskatchewan on Sunday. They say 10 people died and 18 others were injured at several locations on the James Smith Cree Nation ...
Sep 07, 2022

A look at some of the victims of the Saskatchewan stabbing attacks
JAMES SMITH CREE NATION - Ten people were killed in stabbing attacks, and a suspect also died, on the James Smith Cree Nation and in the nearby community of Weldon, northeast of Saskatoon, on Sunday. ...
Sep 07, 2022

Here's how voting works in the Conservative Party of Canada leadership race
OTTAWA - The next leader of the Conservative Party of Canada will be named Sept. 10. Here's a look at how the voting process works: Mail-in ballots: The party says that of the 678,000 members who were...
Sep 07, 2022

Nunavut Inuit headed to France to seek extradition of former Oblate priest
Tanya Tungilik says she wants to meet face to face with the former French Oblate priest her late father alleged sexually abused him as a child. She is to join a delegation of Inuit planning to travel ...
Sep 07, 2022