Category Archives: Canada

Anti-diversity op-ed should never have run in Vancouver Sun: Calgary professor
CALGARY - A journalism professor says the controversy over an anti-diversity opinion piece published in - and then pulled online from - the Vancouver Sun has nothing to do with freedom of express...
Sep 09, 2019

Bianca Andreescu's historic win celebrated across Canada
Canadians cheered Bianca Andreescu at viewing parties, sports bars and even at the Toronto International Film Festival as she made sports history on Saturday. Fans were rapt as the 19-year-old from Mi...
Sep 09, 2019

School board confirms two teachers refused jobs due to Quebec's secularism law
MONTREAL - A Quebec school board says it refused to hire two teachers who wear religious symbols because they would not comply with the province's new secularism law. The Commission scolaire...
Sep 09, 2019

Crown says former hostage Joshua Boyle is lying about wife's supposed failings
OTTAWA - A Crown attorney says former overseas hostage Joshua Boyle is lying about his wife Caitlan Coleman being a neglectful, unfit mother. Prosecutor Jason Neubauer says Boyle, who i...
Sep 09, 2019

First witness takes the stand at double murder trial of Ugo Fredette
SAINT-JEROME, Que. - The trial of a Quebec man facing two counts of first-degree murder heard from a first witness today at a courthouse north of Montreal. Ugo Fredette pleaded not guilty at...
Sep 09, 2019

Tory leader pitches tax cuts, NDP woos Liberals ahead of Manitoba election day
WINNIPEG - Manitoba's political leaders made their final pitches to voters Monday - one day before an election that determines whether the Progressive Conservatives win a second mandate after three ye...
Sep 09, 2019

Former justice Marie Deschamps named to panel overseeing spy agencies
OTTAWA - A former Supreme Court justice has been named to a panel overseeing the country's security agencies. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Marie Deschamps will become a member of the National Se...
Sep 09, 2019

Alberta opens public submissions for environmentalist foreign funding inquiry
EDMONTON - The Alberta government has started a website to allow people to submit information to its inquiry into foreign funding of environmental groups. Inquiry commissioner Steve Allan says he is a...
Sep 09, 2019

'Friends of Science' thanks Elections Canada for warning on climate-change talk
OTTAWA - A Calgary organization that argues climate change is nothing close to a global emergency says Elections Canada is right to keep a close eye on campaign-period communications from th...
Sep 09, 2019

Use of fake social media bots in Alberta election coming in federal vote: expert
EDMONTON - A political scientist says a federal report confirming the use of false social media posts to try to manipulate last spring's Alberta election points to dangers for the upcoming federa...
Sep 09, 2019