Category Archives: Canada
Driver of Calgary commuter train caused crash, can't remember what happened
CALGARY - A transit official says human error is to blame for a Calgary commuter train that crashed last month during peak morning rush hour. The light-rail train failed to stop as it was approaching ...
Oct 06, 2016
Manitoba Liberal says obesity should be protected under human rights code
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba politician wants obese people protected from discrimination under the province’s human rights code. Jon Gerrard, one of only three Liberal legislature members, has introduc...
Oct 06, 2016
Dion's thumbs-down gesture seen as disrespect by mother of abducted kids
OTTAWA - A B.C. woman whose four children were abducted by her ex-husband to Iran says she was shocked to see Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion make a dismissive thumbs-down gesture when her orde...
Oct 06, 2016
Changes at Manitoba legislature could lead to crackdown on protests: Opposition
WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is transferring control over the legislature’s public rooms and outside grounds from government departments to the Speaker’s office - a move the Oppositi...
Oct 06, 2016
Quebec native affairs minister criticized for using term 'Indian time'
QUEBEC - A joke by Quebec’s native affairs minister stereotyping indigenous peoples’ concept of time did not go down well with at least one Cree official Thursday. Speaking at a news confe...
Oct 06, 2016
The Thursday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Oct. 6 RCMP COMMISSIONER APOLOGIZES: RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson apologized Thursday to hundreds of current and former female officers and employees who w...
Oct 06, 2016
Engage early to avoid First Nations veto, AFN chief tells energy conference
OTTAWA - Free, prior and informed indigenous consent means the right to say yes or no to major resource projects, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations told an oil industry-sponsored ene...
Oct 06, 2016
Data shows steep ramp up in penalties on companies shifting profits abroad
CALGARY - Life is getting harder for Canadian multinationals trying to reduce taxes by transferring profits abroad. In its latest budget, the federal government committed to increasing enforcement eff...
Oct 06, 2016
About 200 assisted deaths under new law, but details impossible to come by
TORONTO - About 200 Canadians have received help killing themselves since legislation authorizing medically assisted suicide came into force in June, new figures obtained by The Canadian Press show, b...
Oct 06, 2016
Some of what was said Thursday about RCMP's landmark harassment settlement
OTTAWA - Some of what was said Thursday when RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson apologized and announced the details of a settlement with a group of female Mounties who alleged widespread bullying, abuse a...
Oct 06, 2016