Category Archives: Canada
Guilbeault says Bill C-10 won't breach free speech, citing Justice Department study
OTTAWA - Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault is doubling down on his controversial new broadcasting bill at a parliamentary committee hearing, citing a Justice Department analysis to reiterate the leg...
May 14, 2021
Nunavut health officials plead for Iqaluit residents to stop gathering
IQALUIT - Nunavut's health minister says he wants Iqaluit residents to stop gathering so the city has a shot at a normal summer. Lorne Kusugak scolded residents at a press conference this morning as a...
May 14, 2021
Federal officials lay out roadmap for post-vaccine life as third wave ebbs
Federal health officials are laying out their vision of what life could look like after most Canadians are vaccinated against COVID-19. Canada's chief public health officer says the country may have "...
May 14, 2021
New CDC guidance makes it clear: time to reopen Canada-U.S. border, congressman says
WASHINGTON - A U.S. lawmaker who has made a political crusade out of getting the border with Canada reopened is once again pressing his case with President Joe Biden. New York Rep. Brian Higgins has w...
May 14, 2021
Canada, U.S., Mexico to talk trade at first USMCA Free Trade Commission meeting
WASHINGTON - Senior officials from Canada, the United States and Mexico will meet virtually next week for the first Free Trade Commission meeting of the USMCA era. International Trade Minister Mary Ng...
May 14, 2021
Bloc Québécois leader says next federal election campaign could begin in mid-August
Bloc Qubcois Leader Yves-Franois Blanchet says he sees an opening to begin the next federal election campaign on Aug. 16 if the COVID-19 pandemic is under control.Blanchet, whose party holds 32 seats ...
May 14, 2021
Business, labour groups clash at Senate committee over $15 federal minimum wage
OTTAWA - The head of the country's largest private-sector union says Parliament should raise the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, and possibly put future increases into the hands of an independen...
May 14, 2021
Kenney distances himself from caucus vote to turf dissidents with 'personal agendas'
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney is distancing himself from a decision to expel two members from his United Conservative caucus.But he says the decision affirms confidence of the caucus in his ...
May 14, 2021
Fewer flights land in Canada with COVID-19 since ban on planes from India, Pakistan
OTTAWA - The number of planes landing in Canada carrying passengers with COVID-19 was cut by more than half in the two weeks after the federal government barred incoming flights from India and Pakista...
May 14, 2021
Quebec coroner hears from family of Joyce Echaquan on Day 2 of inquest
MONTREAL - More family members are taking the stand today at a coroner's inquest into the death of an Indigenous woman last year subjected to insults as she lay dying in a hospital northeast of Montre...
May 14, 2021