Category Archives: Canada

Officials flagged 900 food items from China with 'problems' over two years
OTTAWA - Canadian inspectors intercepted nearly 900 food products from China over concerns about faulty labels, unmentioned allergens and harmful contaminants that included glass and metal b...
Jul 14, 2019

Top brass shuffled again as army commander becomes military's second-in-command
OTTAWA - The fallout from the failed prosecution of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman continued Friday as the Defence Department announced another shuffle to its top ranks, including the appointment of a new s...
Jul 14, 2019

Alberta, Quebec seek to intervene in B.C. appeal to Supreme Court on pipelines
EDMONTON - Alberta and Quebec want to have their say when British Columbia goes to the Supreme Court for a ruling on who is in charge of interprovincial projects like pipelines. Both provinces sa...
Jul 14, 2019

Prominent Montreal lawyer James Duggan among victims of Quebec plane crash
MONTREAL - James Duggan, a well-known Montreal lawyer who spent years fighting for the rights of RCMP officers to unionize, was among the three victims of a plane crash t...
Jul 14, 2019

Prominent Montreal lawyer James Duggan among victims of Quebec plane crash
MONTREAL - A prominent Montreal-area lawyer was among the three victims of a plane crash that occurred in a remote region of northern Quebec on Friday. Quebec provincial police say 67-year-o...
Jul 14, 2019

Some MPs are warning the parliamentary work load is going to kill someone
OTTAWA - Some MPs are warning the high-stress, high-stakes environment of politics coupled with relentless work schedules are one day going to kill someone. Winnipeg MP Kevin Lamoureux, who ...
Jul 14, 2019

Tories ask CSIS to probe ex-ambassador's comments about advice to China
OTTAWA - Conservative MPs want Canada's intelligence agency to probe whether a former Canadian ambassador is encouraging China to interfere in the upcoming federal election. John McCallum wa...
Jul 14, 2019

'I saw a trailer that was all twisted': Tornado tosses Quebec campground
ST-ROCH-DE-L'ACHIGAN, Que. - A tornado tore through a campground north of Montreal Thursday evening, snapping trees, toppling trailers and sending at least one injured man to hospital. "When I drove t...
Jul 14, 2019

Armed Forces to sweep explosives from Nazi-sunk ships off Newfoundland
ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The wrecks of four iron ore carriers felled by German U-boats in 1942 have rested off Newfoundland's Bell Island for decades. Bell Island was one of the few places in North America ...
Jul 14, 2019

New immigration pilot will offer residency to some migrant farm-workers
OTTAWA - A new three-year immigration experiment that will give migrant workers a path to permanent residency in Canada is getting a thumbs-up from industry but a thumbs-down from migra...
Jul 14, 2019