Category Archives: Canada
Bitumen knowledge gaps too great to assess risk of ocean spill: study
Not enough is known about the impact oilsands bitumen could have on ocean plants and animals to assess the risks of moving it through marine environments, according to a new study. “Basic inform...
Nov 30, 2016
PC teen sworn in as youngest-ever member of Ontario's legislature
A homeschooled teenager was sworn in Wednesday as the youngest-ever member of the Ontario legislature, but his socially conservative views threaten to make him the Progressive Conservatives’ pro...
Nov 30, 2016
Halifax asks judge to reject class action lawsuit over Africville
HALIFAX - On the shores of the Bedford Basin - where a thriving black community once stood before it was bulldozed by the City of Halifax - lives a man who still refuses to leave Africville. “Un...
Nov 30, 2016
Photo radars to stay on Quebec roads despite court ruling tossing evidence
QUEBEC - Photo radar machines are to remain on Quebec roads despite a recent court ruling that rejected evidence obtained from one, the provincial government said Wednesday. Quebec court Judge Serge C...
Nov 30, 2016
Clark says Ottawa close to meeting B.C.'s five pipeline conditions
VANCOUVER - Premier Christy Clark says the federal government is close to meeting British Columbia’s five conditions for its approval of the Kinder Morgan pipeline, but with those conditions com...
Nov 30, 2016
Canadian railways positive about Trump despite concerns about lumber quotas
MONTREAL - Canada’s two largest railways are positive about the impact of a Donald Trump presidency despite some concern about the possibility of quotas being placed on lumber exports. Senior ex...
Nov 30, 2016
Culturally relevant mentoring benefits aboriginal students, study finds
TORONTO - Indigenous students coached by aboriginal mentors appear to do better at school and be mentally healthier than their non-mentored peers, a new Canadian study indicates. While the findings ar...
Nov 30, 2016
Alberta's Notley to head to B.C. to sell merits of Trans Mountain pipeline
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she will head to British Columbia as early as next week to make the case for Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. “It’s re...
Nov 30, 2016
Some of the hearings by the Canadian Judicial Council into conduct of judges
CALGARY - A Canadian Judicial Council inquiry committee has recommended federal Justice Robin Camp be removed from the bench after making inappropriate remarks when he was a provincial court judge pre...
Nov 30, 2016
At least four dead after shooting in New Brunswick's captial city
Fredericton police says at least four people have died in a shooting. Few details are available, but police were asking residents in the Brookside Drive area to stay in their homes with the doors lock...
Nov 30, 2016