Category Archives: Canada
First Nations filing lawsuits against Pacific NorthWest LNG project
VANCOUVER - First Nations and environmental groups are planning to file lawsuits Thursday against the federal government and Malaysian state-owned oil firm Petronas in an attempt to stop a liquefied n...
Oct 26, 2016
Trudeau defends Iraq mission secrecy, accuses Tories of endangering lives
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau accused the previous Conservative government of having endangered Canadian troops as he defended a recent clampdown on information about Canada’s mission i...
Oct 26, 2016
Bains will consider targets if no improvement to diversity on corporate boards
OTTAWA - The Liberal government hopes that proposed legislation requiring publicly traded companies to disclose the gender composition of their corporate boards and senior management will lead to grea...
Oct 26, 2016
Ottawa man's murder conviction thrown out for second time by N.S. appeal court
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia Court of Appeal has thrown out - for a second time - the first-degree murder conviction of an Ottawa man who claimed he had no idea a drug-world associate was planning to sho...
Oct 26, 2016
N.S. brewery, Islamic Centre now 'good neighbours' after noise, trash complaints
HALIFAX - A Halifax brewery and neighbouring Islamic centre have issued a joint statement saying they are working out their issues. The Centre for Islamic Development filed a noise and litter complain...
Oct 26, 2016
Home schooling agency tied to spending scandal fires back at Alberta government
EDMONTON - A privately run Alberta home schooling agency at the centre of a million-dollar spending scandal says it has done nothing wrong. The Wisdom Home Schooling Society calls government allegatio...
Oct 26, 2016
Driver and owner of train in Lac-Megantic disaster added to class action lawsuit
MONTREAL - The conductor as well as the owner of the train that derailed, exploded and killed 47 people in Lac-Megantic in 2013 have been added as respondents in a class action lawsuit. Thomas Harding...
Oct 26, 2016
Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal doomed: Mulroney
ANTIGONISH, N.S. - Former prime minister Brian Mulroney says the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is doomed to fail because of hostility in the U.S. Congress and widespread antipathy to trade init...
Oct 26, 2016
Information from accused nurse led to probe into alleged murders: source
TORONTO - The investigation into the alleged murders of eight elderly nursing home residents was prompted by information the nurse accused in the case provided to a psychiatric hospital in Toronto, Th...
Oct 26, 2016
Premier: Ontario may review nursing home oversight 'at some point'
TORONTO - A review of Ontario government oversight of nursing homes will be launched “at some point” if one is needed in the wake of a nurse allegedly killing residents, Premier Kathleen W...
Oct 26, 2016