Category Archives: Canada
Get used to 'job churn,' Morneau tells Liberal meeting
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. - Finance Minister Bill Morneau says Canadians should get used to so-called "job churn" - short-term employment and a number of career changes in a person's life. Morneau made the ...
Oct 22, 2016
Two arrested in alleged sexual assaults at Universite Laval residence
Quebec City police have arrested two men in connection with alleged break-ins and sexual assaults at a university residence. One of the accused has been released on a promise to appear in court at a l...
Oct 22, 2016
Freeland departs Belgium after one more Canada-EU free trade deal meeting
OTTAWA - International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland was returning to Canada Saturday but not before she left her European counterparts with one more warning to do what it takes to save the Canada-...
Oct 22, 2016
No winning ticket for Friday night's $25 million Lotto Max jackpot
TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for Friday night’s $25 million Lotto max jackpot. That means the grand prize for next Friday’s draw on Oct. 28 will rise to approximately $34 million. ...
Oct 22, 2016
NDP says Ottawa not funding enough mental-health workers after youth suicides
SASKATOON - A New Democrat MP says the federal government is failing to address the mental-health problems of indigenous people. Charlie Angus, the NDP critic for indigenous and northern affairs, made...
Oct 21, 2016

Trudeau predicts Liberals will beat the odds in Alberta byelection
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. - The Prime Minister says his party will be able to recapture a southern Alberta riding in an upcoming byelection, despite the fact that a Liberal hasn't been elected to that seat ...
Oct 21, 2016

Weather thwarts efforts to better contain tugboat fuel spill off B.C.'s coast
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - The chief of a First Nation community says choppy weather hindered efforts Friday to deploy a larger boom to better contain a leak of diesel fuel from a sunken tugboat on British C...
Oct 21, 2016
Armoured car robbed in Montreal after being hit by backhoe
MONTREAL - An armoured vehicle was robbed in Montreal on Friday after being hit with the front end of an backhoe tractor on a busy street. Police say a backhoe deliberately crashed into a parked armou...
Oct 21, 2016
Quotes from Friday's developments on the collapsing Canada-EU trade deal
OTTAWA - Some of what was said Friday about the Canada-EU trade agreement known as the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, or CETA, which appeared close to collapse Friday after talks broke do...
Oct 21, 2016
The Friday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Friday, Oct. 21 ____ CANADA WALKS FROM TRADE TALKS: International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland says she can do no more to convince a region of Belgium to agree to...
Oct 21, 2016