Category Archives: Canada
Explainer on Alberta UCP legislature members facing recall petitions
EDMONTON - Fourteen Alberta legislature members with Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative Party caucus are facing recall petitions from constituents. It's the first time the province's Recall ...
Nov 25, 2025
MPs call on feds to bring back bill criminalizing coercive behaviour in relationships
OTTAWA - MPs on the House of Commons status of women committee called on the federal government Tuesday to criminalize coercive behaviour in intimate relationships. The committee members, representing...
Nov 25, 2025
Quebec begins consultations on potential revision of greenhouse gas targets
MONTRAL - Quebec is beginning consultations at the provincial legislature on whether to revise its greenhouse gas emission reduction target. The province committed to reducing its annual emissions by ...
Nov 25, 2025
Judge says Amazon needed 100 lawyers to assess 2.25M documents in competition probe
OTTAWA - A Federal Court judge says Amazon Canada should have hired "at least 100 lawyers" to go through more than two million documents, in order to meet court-ordered deadlines in an investigation i...
Nov 25, 2025
Beekeepers call for import ban on non-North American bees as deadly mite spreads
OTTAWA - Canadian beekeepers are sounding the alarm about a pest that's spreading in parts of Asia, and a Conservative MP is calling on the federal government to change a long-standing policy on impor...
Nov 25, 2025
Quebec economic update: modest financial relief to households, lower deficit
QUBEC - Quebec's finance minister presented an economic update on Tuesday that offered modest savings to taxpayers, as he painted an optimistic picture of the province's finances heading into an elect...
Nov 25, 2025
Court dismisses lawsuit accusing Manitoba Métis leader of wrongdoing
OTTAWA - The Manitoba Mtis Federation is celebrating an Ontario Superior Court decision that found its president did not breach his fiduciary duties while serving as finance minister for the Mtis Nati...
Nov 25, 2025
Quebec to extend religious symbols ban, outlaw university prayer rooms in new bill
MONTREAL - Quebec's secularism minister says the province needs tighter rules to keep religion out of the education system - and even out of public places. More than six years after the Quebec governm...
Nov 25, 2025
Five more Alberta UCP legislature members facing recall, bringing total to 14
EDMONTON - Elections Alberta has issued recall petitions against five more members of Premier Danielle Smith's United Conservative Party caucus, bringing the total to 14. The new total means that almo...
Nov 25, 2025
$50K reward to help find Liam Toman, Ontario man last seen at Quebec ski resort town
MONTREAL - A Montreal non-profit is offering up to $50,000 for information that could help find an Ontario man who went missing in the Mont-Tremblant, Que., area in February. Liam Toman, 22, disappear...
Nov 25, 2025