Category Archives: Canada
Alberta union says deal includes right to domestic violence leave
EDMONTON - A union in Alberta has negotiated domestic violence leave for members who work at a long-term care facility. The United Steelworkers says the agreement means R...
Jan 22, 2017
'Few examples of concrete action:' Study says Nunavut climate adaptation slow
Programs to help people adapt to climate change in a part of Canada where help may be needed the most are stuck in the ice, a study has concluded. For more than a decade Inuit in Nunavut hav...
Jan 22, 2017
Canadian chef James Olberg takes on the world at Bocuse d'Or
TORONTO - Focus will be the name of the game when James Olberg dons his chef’s whites for the biggest competition of his life. He’s been fixated for months on gruelling preparations f...
Jan 22, 2017
Trudeau cabinet retreat to confront the reality of Trump's presidency
CALGARY - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his federal Liberal government will confront the reality of Donald Trump in the White House as his cabinet members gathered Sunday for a...
Jan 22, 2017
First responders call for national strategy to tackle PTSD crisis
VANCOUVER - Natalie Harris was afraid to fall asleep. As a young paramedic in Barrie, Ont., Harris went to bed dreading her next nightmare. Nearly every night, she says she bolted upright screami...
Jan 22, 2017
Quebec's Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois says he's ready for 'political action'
MONTREAL - A common refrain right now in Quebec politics is how the province is full of so-called political orphans. Quebec media regularly host polemics from these polit...
Jan 22, 2017
Quebec ticket claims Saturday night's $25 million Lotto 649 jackpot
TORONTO - Quebec has another big lottery winner. The $25 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw was claimed by ticket purchased somewhere in the province. And the draw’s guaran...
Jan 22, 2017
Protests: America's punch-drunk left pulls itself off the canvas, stirs to life
WASHINGTON - From the smoldering wreckage of electoral catastrophe, deep in the seat-swallowing sinkholes of state and federal defeat, America’s progressives have suddenly spotted embe...
Jan 22, 2017
One dead, two presumed dead after going through the ice in Nunavut
WHALE COVE, Nunavut - RCMP in Nunavut say they believe three people died Saturday after a large snow machine went through the ice. Police say four men were travelling on the ice from Rankin Inlet to A...
Jan 21, 2017
Brit and Canadian heading to Women's March turned away at US border
A U.K. national in Canada on a student visa says he and a friend were turned away at the U.S. border because they intended to go to Saturday’s Women’s March in Washington. Joe Kr...
Jan 21, 2017