Category Archives: Canada
Thomas King's revelation he is not Indigenous sends ripples through culture sector
TORONTO - Thomas King's revelation that he has no Indigenous ancestry sent ripples through Canada's cultural sector, while raising questions about what responsibility a person has when they claim a he...
Nov 25, 2025
Trouble in 'Team Canada' as B.C.'s deputy premier raises spectre of pipeline lawsuit
VICTORIA - Rifts in "Team Canada" appear to be widening on the brink of a federal announcement on a potential pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast, with B.C.'s deputy premier even raising the prosp...
Nov 25, 2025
Carney says his comment about speaking with Trump was a 'poor choice of words'
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney said Tuesday his recent reply to a question about the state of trade talks with the U.S. - "Who cares?" - amounted to "a poor choice of words." Conservative Leader ...
Nov 25, 2025
Official languages commissioner concerned about federal budget cuts
MONTREAL - Canada's commissioner of official languages says he wants to ensure language rights don't suffer as a result of federal spending cuts. Raymond Thberge was speaking today in Dieppe, N.B., wh...
Nov 25, 2025
MPs call on feds to bring back bill criminalizing coercive behaviour in relationships
OTTAWA - MPs on the House of Commons status of women committee called on the federal government Tuesday to criminalize coercive behaviour in intimate relationships. The committee members, representing...
Nov 25, 2025
Quebec begins consultations on potential revision of greenhouse gas targets
MONTRAL - Quebec is beginning consultations at the provincial legislature on whether to revise its greenhouse gas emission reduction target. The province committed to reducing its annual emissions by ...
Nov 25, 2025
Judge says Amazon needed 100 lawyers to assess 2.25M documents in competition probe
OTTAWA - A Federal Court judge says Amazon Canada should have hired "at least 100 lawyers" to go through more than two million documents, in order to meet court-ordered deadlines in an investigation i...
Nov 25, 2025
Beekeepers call for import ban on non-North American bees as deadly mite spreads
OTTAWA - Canadian beekeepers are sounding the alarm about a pest that's spreading in parts of Asia, and a Conservative MP is calling on the federal government to change a long-standing policy on impor...
Nov 25, 2025
$50K reward to help find Liam Toman, Ontario man last seen at Quebec ski resort town
MONTREAL - A Montreal non-profit is offering up to $50,000 for information that could help find an Ontario man who went missing in the Mont-Tremblant, Que., area in February. Liam Toman, 22, disappear...
Nov 25, 2025
CBSA, PMO say they were not involved in MP announcing ban on Belfast band Kneecap
OTTAWA - The Canada Border Services Agency and the Prime Minister's Office say they were not involved in an Ontario Liberal MP's announcement that members of the Belfast band Kneecap were banned from ...
Nov 25, 2025