Category Archives: Canada
Canadian border bill passes U.S. Congress: enables long-awaited reforms
WASHINGTON - A bill with potentially sweeping consequences for the Canada-U.S. border has just been adopted by the American Congress, allowing new projects aimed at speeding up travel through the inte...
Dec 10, 2016
Downtrodden D.C.: In federal offices, tears and sadness about working for Trump
WASHINGTON - A funereal atmosphere has taken hold in government offices in the U.S. capital, where numerous federal employees describe mournful, even tearful, scenes among dejected co-workers commiser...
Dec 10, 2016
A look at details of framework agreement on climate change
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won the agreement Friday of eight provinces and all three territories for an “historic” pan-Canadian framework on clean growth and climate change. Th...
Dec 09, 2016
A selection of quotes following first ministers meeting on climate change
OTTAWA - First ministers emerged from a day-long summit Friday hailing a pan-Canadian agreement on climate change. Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall flatly refused to sign on while Manitoba’s Brian...
Dec 09, 2016
Ontario steelmaker Stelco seeks court OK for moving ahead with restructuring
TORONTO - Southern Ontario steelmaker Stelco is seeking court approval to move forward with its restructuring following an agreement with Bedrock Industries. Ontario Finance Minister Charles Sousa sai...
Dec 09, 2016
More Russian doping bombshells fall on Canada's Olympians and Paralympians
The latest revelations of Russian doping had Canada’s luge team talking at breakfast Friday morning in Whistler, B.C. When you’ve finished fourth in the Olympic Games, it gets you thinking...
Dec 09, 2016
Montreal Bay store fined $765,000 for pollutants in St. Lawrence River
MONTREAL - The Bay store in downtown Montreal was fined $765,000 for illegally releasing pollutants into the St. Lawrence River, the Public Prosecution Service of Canada said Friday. But Nathalie Houl...
Dec 09, 2016
MP starts petition in support of private member's bill named after dead Mountie
ST. ALBERT, Alta. - An Alberta MP says he’ll continue to push his private member’s bill named after an RCMP officer who was shot and killed almost two years ago. Conservative Michael Coope...
Dec 09, 2016
The Friday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Friday, Dec. 9 TRUDEAU HAILS CLIMATE PLAN: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is claiming victory in his campaign to craft a national “framework” agreement on ...
Dec 09, 2016
B.C. university given J.S. Woodsworth letters and photos spanning a century
VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s Simon Fraser University has acquired a collection of letters, photos and manuscripts linked to one of the founding figures of Canada’s social reform movement...
Dec 09, 2016