Category Archives: Canada

The latest on protests across Canada in support of anti-pipeline demonstrators
Here is the latest news on protests across Canada over a natural gas pipeline project in British Columbia: Federal Public Safety Minister Bill Blair says the RCMP have offered to move...
Feb 20, 2020

Top court decision allows former N.S. Crown lawyer to sue premier for libel
HALIFAX - The Supreme Court of Canada has opened the door to a libel lawsuit against Nova Scotia's premier by a former government lawyer who says the premier damaged his reputation by denoun...
Feb 20, 2020

Elections Canada reports no serious cyberthreats to last fall's federal election
OTTAWA - Elections Canada can't let its guard down, says Canada's chief electoral officer Stephane Perrault, despite getting through last fall's federal election campaign with no significant cybersecu...
Feb 20, 2020

Flight to evacuate Canadians from cruise ship 'expected' to depart Japan on Thursday
Canadians stranded on a quarantined cruise ship were told that a flight set to bring them home is "expected" to depart Tokyo Haneda Airport on Thursday amid an outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Passe...
Feb 20, 2020

The latest on protests across Canada in support of anti-pipeline demonstrators
Here is the latest news on protests across Canada over a natural gas pipeline project in British Columbia: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he spoke with British Columbia Premier John Horgan ...
Feb 20, 2020

Via to resume service in southwestern Ontario starting Thursday morning
MONTREAL - Via Rail says its service will resume Thursday morning in southwestern Ontario. The passenger rail company says it received a notification from CN Rail allowing a resumption of service in t...
Feb 20, 2020

Baloney Meter: Rail blockades and government authority over the police
OTTAWA - "The RCMP Act is clear: the minister of public safety has the ultimate authority over Canada's national police force, and has the power to direct the RCMP to enforce the law. ... So do the ri...
Feb 20, 2020

Patrik Mathews, accused neo-Nazi, pleads not guilty to U.S. weapons charges
GREENBELT, Md. - A former Canadian Forces reservist at the centre of an alleged white-supremacist plot to trigger a race war in the United States pleaded not guilty to weapons charges Tuesday as ...
Feb 20, 2020

Federal minister pledges to meet chiefs in B.C. over natural gas pipeline
OTTAWA - The federal Crown-Indigenous relations minister is offering to meet today with Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs in northwestern British Columbia. But while Carolyn Bennett and her B.C. counterp...
Feb 20, 2020

Canadians aboard coronavirus-ridden cruise ship to return home tonight
OTTAWA - Healthy Canadians from the Diamond Princess cruise ship will shortly be heading home, according to Canada's foreign affairs minister, after weeks under quarantine for the novel coronavir...
Feb 20, 2020