Category Archives: Canada
New Brunswick ends automatic coroner investigations of assisted suicides
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick is introducing legislation to end mandatory coroners’ investigations in assisted suicides. Justice Minister Denis Landry says the modernization of the Coron...
Nov 15, 2016
Environment minister says global movement to fight climate change 'irresistible'
MARRAKECH, Morocco - The momentum behind the movement for global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions is “irresistible” despite the recent election of Donald Trump, Canada̵...
Nov 15, 2016
Parents of student who died of alcohol poisoning sue Halifax university
HALIFAX - The parents of a young Chinese woman who died of alcohol poisoning after a night of drinking inside a Dalhousie University residence are suing the school for alleged negligence. In a stateme...
Nov 15, 2016
Remote northern Manitoba reserve in crisis, needs PM to intervene: chief
WINNIPEG - A Manitoba grand chief is asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to help a remote First Nation left in crisis after a fire destroyed the community’s only grocery store an...
Nov 15, 2016
Man who brutally beat wife, her daughter to death sentenced to life in prison
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia man who used a claw hammer and bat to bludgeon his common-law wife and her daughter to death in 2013 was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday without chance of pa...
Nov 15, 2016
Liberal government, military defend letting Canadians shoot first in Iraq
OTTAWA - The Liberal government faced fresh accusations of misleading the public on Tuesday after the country’s top soldier said Canadian troops have been allowed to fire first in Iraq. Governme...
Nov 15, 2016
Former aide to ex-Montreal mayor Applebaum wore wire to glean confession
MONTREAL - An ex-aide to Michael Applebaum testified he wore a wire in an attempt to help police extract a confession in 2013 from the then-interim Montreal mayor. But Ap...
Nov 15, 2016
Health minister Jane Philpott brought to tears over father's dementia
OTTAWA - An emotional Health Minister Jane Philpott, brought to tears by her own father’s experience with dementia, suggested Tuesday that the Liberal government plans to support a nat...
Nov 15, 2016
Environmental groups call subsidies to fossil fuel industry an 'anti-carbon tax'
A study suggests Canada’s attempts to set a price on carbon are being undercut by subsidies to the fossil-fuel industry. A coalition of four environmental groups have summed up tax exemptio...
Nov 15, 2016
Justin Trudeau arrives in Cuba, meets with president Raul Castro
HAVANA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrived in Cuba on Tuesday evening, where the country’s president told him the island nation will not progress any faster than it already is. Cuban Pr...
Nov 15, 2016