Category Archives: Canada
Clark says Ottawa close to meeting B.C.'s five pipeline conditions
VANCOUVER - Premier Christy Clark says the federal government is close to meeting British Columbia’s five conditions for its approval of the Kinder Morgan pipeline, but with those condition...
Nov 30, 2016
Canadian railways positive about Trump despite concerns about lumber quotas
MONTREAL - Canada’s two largest railways are positive about the impact of a Donald Trump presidency despite some concern about the possibility of quotas being placed on lumbe...
Nov 30, 2016
Culturally relevant mentoring benefits aboriginal students, study finds
TORONTO - Indigenous students coached by aboriginal mentors appear to do better at school and be mentally healthier than their non-mentored peers, a new Canadian study indicates. While the findings ar...
Nov 30, 2016
Alberta's Notley to head to B.C. to sell merits of Trans Mountain pipeline
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says she will head to British Columbia as early as next week to make the case for Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion. “It’s re...
Nov 30, 2016
Some of the hearings by the Canadian Judicial Council into conduct of judges
CALGARY - A Canadian Judicial Council inquiry committee has recommended federal Justice Robin Camp be removed from the bench after making inappropriate remarks when he was a provincial court judge pre...
Nov 30, 2016
At least four dead after shooting in New Brunswick's captial city
Fredericton police says at least four people have died in a shooting. Few details are available, but police were asking residents in the Brookside Drive area to stay in their homes with the doors...
Nov 30, 2016
Workers stranded on the side of a Vancouver high rise rescued safely
VANCOUVER - Three workers are safe after they were stranded more than 100 metres above the streets of downtown Vancouver early Wednesday morning. Assistant chief Martin Paulson of Vancouver Fire and R...
Nov 30, 2016
Judicial committee says 'knees together' judge Robin Camp should lose his job
CALGARY - A Canadian Judicial Council committee says a judge’s apology for asking a sexual assault complainant why she couldn’t keep her knees together doesn’t offset the damage done...
Nov 30, 2016
B.C. Liberal MPs bracing for constituents after Kinder Morgan pipeline approval
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau’s promise to let backbenchers to be the voice of their constituents in Ottawa is being tested as B.C. Liberal MPs grapple with the political fallout from the decision to ...
Nov 30, 2016
Terrorist sympathizer's shooting death in Ontario justified: police force
A police investigation has found RCMP were justified in fatally shooting a terrorist sympathizer during a confrontation in southwestern Ontario earlier this year. Aaron Driver died in a...
Nov 30, 2016