Category Archives: Canada

Hotter, larger fires turning boreal forest into carbon source: research
Bigger, hotter wildfires are turning Canada's vast boreal forest into a significant new source of climate-changing greenhouse gases, scientists say. The shift, which may have already happened, could f...
Aug 23, 2019

People's Party outlines seats with prominent candidates in bid to enter debates
OTTAWA - The upstart People's Party of Canada is making another bid to get leader Maxime Bernier onto the official debate stage during this fall's election campaign. The Leaders' Debates Commissi...
Aug 23, 2019

NAFTA, Hong Kong on agenda for Trudeau-Trump bilateral meeting during G7 summit
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will have a tete-a-tete with President Donald Trump this weekend on the margins of the G7 summit in France. White House officials have confirmed the bilateral me...
Aug 23, 2019

Ottawa police charge transit driver with 38 offences in deadly bus crash
Ottawa police are charging the driver of a city bus with more than three dozen offences after a deadly crash in January that killed three people and injured 23 others. Aissatou Diallo was in...
Aug 23, 2019

Ontario shipyard accuses feds of unfairly stacking deck in Davie's favour
OTTAWA - An Ontario shipyard is accusing the federal government of trying to unfairly award Quebec's Davie Shipbuilding potentially billions of dollars worth of work without a competition. The allegat...
Aug 23, 2019

Liberals block hearings into scathing ethics report on SNC-Lavalin affair
OTTAWA - Cries of a coverup competed with claims of pre-election, hyper-partisan excess Wednesday after Liberal MPs blocked an opposition attempt to hold hearings on ethics co...
Aug 23, 2019

'What our ancestors meant:' Canada, First Nations create new park reserve
LUTSEL K'E, N.W.T. - A deal on a vast new national park reserve in the North is being called a model for future relationships between First Nations and Canada. "This is what our ancestors meant w...
Aug 23, 2019

In the news today, Aug. 21
Four stories in the news for Wednesday, Aug. 21 --- ETHICS REPORT NOT HURTING LIBERALS: POLL A new poll suggests a scathing ethics report on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's handling of ...
Aug 23, 2019

In the news today, Aug. 23
Four stories in the news for Friday, Aug. 23 --- GRITS DIG UP VIDEO OF SCHEER SPEAKING AGAINST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE Liberals went trolling Thursday for young, progressive-minded voter...
Aug 23, 2019

Liberals unhurt, Tories not helped by scathing SNC-Lavalin report: Poll
OTTAWA - A new poll suggests a scathing ethics report on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's handling of the SNC-Lavalin affair hasn't so far hurt the Liberals' chances of re-election this fall - and...
Aug 23, 2019