Category Archives: Canada

Freeland's 'Plutocrats' book showcases her views on taxes, deficits, joblessness
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau first met Chrystia Freeland at a 2012 Toronto signing for her award-winning book, Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else. The tome...
Aug 23, 2020

Winner of Conservative leadership race set to be revealed tonight
OTTAWA - The federal Conservative party elects a new leader tonight and whomever wins faces two major challenges right out of the gate. One: the party is the Official Oppostion in the House of Co...
Aug 23, 2020

Future priests move from Montreal's Grand Seminaire, ending its 160-year legacy
MONTREAL - Like many post-secondary students preparing for the new school year, Francis Leroux is packing boxes and getting ready to move. But the 23-year-old trainee pri...
Aug 23, 2020

Newfoundland and Labrador premier takes office, now has to win over the public
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - As Newfoundland and Labrador's newly minted premier gets to work addressing the province's economic problems, he must turn his attention to another pressing political hurdle: winnin...
Aug 23, 2020

Iran retrieves data, cockpit talk from downed Ukraine plane
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran has retrieved some data, including a portion of cockpit conversations, from the Ukrainian jetliner accidentally downed by the Revolutionary Guard forces in January, killing all 176...
Aug 23, 2020

Officials say strong winds failed to fuel Penticton, B.C., wildfire
PENTICTON, B.C. - Strong winds that were expected to fuel a wildfire burning south of Penticton, B.C., on Friday failed to do so, fire officials said Saturday. The 20-square-kilometre Christie Mountai...
Aug 22, 2020

Quebec issues provincewide street check guidelines; rights groups raise concerns
MONTREAL - The Quebec government has issued provincewide guidelines to police forces regarding street checks, but the policy is raising concerns from various rights groups. Quebec's Public Security De...
Aug 22, 2020

Talks needed on decriminalizing hard drugs to address opioid crisis, Tam says
OTTAWA - Canada's chief health officer says Canadians should be "seized" with the crisis of rising deaths from opioid use, and she suggests decriminalizing hard drugs should be part of ...
Aug 22, 2020

Nova Scotia First Nation relieved after missing teen found safe; man in custody
ESKASONI, N.S. - The entire We'koqma'q Mi'kmaq First Nation in Nova Scotia is breathing a sigh of relief, Chief Rod Googoo said Saturday, after an Indigenous girl who had been miss...
Aug 22, 2020

Who are they? What do they want to do? A primer on the Conservative contenders
OTTAWA - On Sunday, the federal Conservative party will elect a new leader. There are four candidates vying to lead the party, which currently holds 121 seats in the House of Commons and ser...
Aug 22, 2020