Category Archives: Canada

RCMP not fully prepared for active shooters five years after Moncton: auditor
OTTAWA - The RCMP isn't sure that all its officers have access to the rifles and body armour needed to respond to an active shooter, almost five years after three Mounties were gunned down i...
May 07, 2019

Canada's asylum system unable to respond to spikes in claims, AG finds
OTTAWA - Acting auditor general Sylvain Ricard has found Canada's refugee system is plagued with a backlog of asylum claims that is worse now than it has ever been, caused in part by systemic ine...
May 07, 2019

Senator says solitary-confinement bill will make some conditions worse, not better
OTTAWA - A Canadian senator who has spent four decades advocating for the rights of vulnerable people in Canadian prisons says a new bill that purports to end solitary confinement should be ...
May 07, 2019

Green party win shows Canadians 'preoccupied' by climate change: Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a B.C. byelection win for the Green party shows Canadians are "preoccupied" by climate change. Trudeau says it will be really important for Canadi...
May 07, 2019

Jean Vanier, Catholic hero to developmentally disabled, dies
PARIS - Jean Vanier, whose charity work helped improve conditions for the developmentally disabled in Canada and multiple other countries over the past half-century, has died at 90. A charity he found...
May 07, 2019

Canada welcomes any U.S. help on dispute with China, says rural minister
OTTAWA - A Nova Scotia cabinet minister says the federal government would welcome any help the United States could offer in helping Canada in its ongoing dispute with China. "I would say that it would...
May 07, 2019

B.C. Green win sends message to established parties that climate issue a winner
NANAIMO, B.C. - British Columbia voters sent a message that Canadians are deeply concerned about the environment and climate issues will be at the forefront in October's federal election campaign, jub...
May 07, 2019

In the news today, May 7
Five stories in the news for Tuesday, May 7 --- UN REPORT HAS MESSAGE FOR CANADA: CO-AUTHOR A UN report that concludes a million species are threatened with extinction and that "fundamental,...
May 07, 2019

Exam question on climate change draws anger, memes from Quebec students
MONTREAL - Quebec high school students are criticizing a question on a government-administered French exam that asked them if society can adapt to the effects of cli...
May 07, 2019

MPs are no Einstein when it comes to misattributing famous quotes
OTTAWA - Canadian parliamentarians love to quote Albert Einstein's definition of insanity. No one more so than Liberal Sean Casey, who's cited the famous quotation purportedly from the accla...
May 07, 2019