Category Archives: Canada

Justin Trudeau tastes refugee family's chocolate after NS meet-and-greet
SYDNEY, N.S. - A Syrian refugee family who built a chocolate business in Nova Scotia had their product sampled by a special sweet-toothed Canadian - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Tareq Hadhad an...
Nov 13, 2016
Trump presidency marks 'new opportunity' for Canada to draw investment: Charest
Former Quebec premier Jean Charest says last week’s U.S. presidential election marks a “new opportunity” for Canada to draw international investment. Speaking Sunday on CTV’s Q...
Nov 13, 2016
Trump's tough talk, Cuban military exercises cast shadow on Trudeau visit
OTTAWA - The chill of the Cold War will run through Cuba when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau arrives in the country this week. The warming of relations between Cuba and the United States could end ...
Nov 13, 2016

Leonard Cohen's son Adam thanks public for support following singer's death
MONTREAL - The outpouring of love and affection that has followed Leonard Cohen’s death did not go unnoticed by the late singer’s son, who thanked the public in an...
Nov 13, 2016
Isolation a barrier to exposing sexual abuse, incest on reserve: Bellegarde
OTTAWA - At night, he would arrive in Corey’s room by crawling through the window next to the bunk bed where she slept. She knew from the smell when he was there. By day, she endured different h...
Nov 13, 2016

Conservative leadership rivals debate best path to reviving party fortunes
GREELY, Ont. - A two-hour debate Sunday among nine rivals for the federal Conservative leadership often morphed into an autopsy of the party’s ill-fated 2015 election campaign. Candidates clashe...
Nov 13, 2016

Unlimited vacation: The ultimate work perk, but experts warn of pitfalls
PARADISE, N.L. - Terry Hussey has never forgotten how Sunday nights used to feel: anxious dread, before another week at a job he hated. So when he became CEO of Vigilant Management...
Nov 13, 2016

'Challenging language:' Edmonton academic studies versions of 1st Inuit novel
EDMONTON - The story reaches out of an Arctic past stretching back to long before Europeans came, a world when a hunter’s fate was determined by snow and ice, claws and ...
Nov 13, 2016

Red Cross funds study into how Fort McMurray wildfire affected indigenous people
FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. - Melanie Dene still remembers the harrowing ordeal of driving through fiery hell during the evacuation of Fort McMurray six months ago with her two young daughters. The chao...
Nov 13, 2016

Dads on the Hill: Male MPs with kids work hard to mix fatherhood with politics
OTTAWA - Liberal MP Peter Schiefke checks his schedule carefully each week, as one would expect from anyone with a busy job, asking himself one question in particular. Will the timing of a vote in the...
Nov 13, 2016