Category Archives: Canada

Canadians from coronavirus-stricken cruise ship in Japan to fly home Thursday: Champagne
Canadians who have spent weeks on a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship in Japan will board a government-chartered plane to take them home Thursday evening, the foreign affairs minist...
Feb 21, 2020

A castle gets a makeover and a new mortgage stress test; In The News for Feb. 19
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 19 ... What...
Feb 21, 2020

Wuhan evacuees released and bison on the lam; In The News for Feb. 21
In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 21 ... What...
Feb 21, 2020

Higher costs should kill Trans Mountain pipeline, opposition says
OTTAWA - Opposition parties and environmental groups are urging the federal government to stop expanding the Trans Mountain pipeline, citing a poll saying Canadians are alarmed by the project's cost. ...
Feb 21, 2020

Talks the way to settle blockades, Trudeau insists, as calls for action grow louder
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his cabinet are rejecting demands from conservatives on Parliament Hill and in provincial legislatures to break up blockades of rail lines by Indigenous prot...
Feb 21, 2020

Wet'suwet'en chiefs to spend Friday with Mohawk supporters in Ontario
OTTAWA - A group of hereditary leaders from the Wet'suwet'en Nation in British Columbia is to spend the day with Mohawk supporters in Ontario. The B.C. hereditary chiefs are thanking the Mohawks ...
Feb 21, 2020

Canadian Press NewsAlert: Woman returning from Iran has COVID-19 in B.C.
VANCOUVER - Another case of the coronavirus has been diagnosed in British Columbia. Provincial health officer Dr. Bonnie Henry says a woman in her 30s has been diagnosed with COVID-19 after retur...
Feb 20, 2020

Concerns raised over Saskatchewan ban on sex offenders changing names
REGINA - Questions are being raised about the Saskatchewan government's move to automatically deny sex offenders the ability to legally change their names. The province has released details ...
Feb 20, 2020

Top earners pay more in B.C. budget that includes record capital spending
VICTORIA - Top income earners and pop drinkers were hit with new taxes in Tuesday's B.C. budget, which continues the government's focus on capital spending for schools, hospitals and transit...
Feb 20, 2020

Freeland blasts Tories, but thanks NDP for support on pushing new NAFTA forward
OTTAWA - Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland has offered effusive thanks to New Democrats and stinging criticism of the Conservatives after the NDP supported the minority Liberal government's effo...
Feb 20, 2020