Category Archives: Canada

Report tells Health Canada to rethink funding in opioids fight
OTTAWA - How governments fund the country's fight against the opioid crisis might explain "a lack of progress" on the issue, say newly disclosed documents on an alte...
Feb 06, 2020

Federal Court dismisses First Nations' challenges to TMX pipeline project
OTTAWA - The Trans Mountain pipeline expansion overcame another legal hurdle Tuesday when the Federal Court of Appeal struck down a challenge filed by several British Columbia First Nat...
Feb 06, 2020

Premiers, Freeland bound for U.S. capital to mark USMCA, beat back protectionism
WASHINGTON - A delegation of premiers will be in Washington this weekend to reinforce cross-border business ties with their American counterparts, hedging their bets...
Feb 06, 2020

Two Canadians aboard a cruise ship off Japan test positive for new coronavirus
Two Canadians on a cruise ship that has been quarantined off the coast of Japan have tested positive for the new coronavirus. "Princess Cruises can confirm that we have been notified that amongst...
Feb 05, 2020

Former Liberal MP Peschisolido 'chronically' broke code of conduct: commissioner
OTTAWA - The federal ethics watchdog says former Liberal MP Joe Peschisolido repeatedly broke the code of conduct for members of Parliament. Ethics commissioner Mario Dion says in a report that Peschi...
Feb 05, 2020

'The chill is real,' Canada's ambassador to China says of fraught relationship
OTTAWA - Canada's ambassador to China says there is a chill in relations between the two countries since the People's Republic imprisoned two Canadians, but his top priority is winning their release a...
Feb 05, 2020

Bloc Quebecois MP among new faces on national security committee
OTTAWA - The new crop of parliamentarians overseeing the security-and-intelligence community includes the first Bloc Quebecois MP to sit on the committee. The Prime Minister's Office says Bloc MP Chri...
Feb 05, 2020

Ripple effect on Canadian immigration likely from Trump's new visa restrictions
OTTAWA - U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to slap visa restrictions on six new countries could affect immigration flows to Canada, if history is any indication, as those caught up in the changes...
Feb 05, 2020

Shipping crude oil through Manitoba has been floated, rejected before
WINNIPEG - There's renewed talk of transporting western oil through the northern Manitoba port in Churchill, but any such project is likely to run into opposition from environmentalists and some ...
Feb 05, 2020

Doctor who examined Lionel Desmond tells fatality inquiry what he saw
GUYSBOROUGH, N.S. - A Nova Scotia doctor who saw Lionel Desmond two days before he killed his family and took his own life told a fatality inquiry Monday the mentall...
Feb 05, 2020