Category Archives: Canada
Access-to-information document refutes Fantino email claim from 2013
OTTAWA - A document obtained under access-to-information laws refutes former Conservative cabinet minister Julian Fantino’s claim that an email at the heart of an official languages complai...
Sep 11, 2016
Centre to honour residential school survivors breaks ground at UBC
VANCOUVER - Cindy Tom-Lindley says her grandmother had all her children taken to residential schools and the family had no choice but to comply with the federal government policy designed to assimilat...
Sep 11, 2016
Liberals, like Tories before them, won't amend cluster bomb treaty loophole
OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals are facing criticism at home and abroad for not closing a controversial legal loophole that allows the Canadian Forces to operate alongside allies, such as the Unite...
Sep 11, 2016
Countries must ensure their peacekeepers protect civilians: Sajjan
OTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says protecting civilians - by force if needed - will be central to any Canadian peacekeeping mission in Africa, and that Canada will expect troops from partner...
Sep 11, 2016
Panel calls for major overhaul of UBC's approach to sexual assaults
VANCOUVER - An expert panel is calling for a sweeping transformation of the University of British Columbia’s approach to sexual assaults, after speaking with survivors and campus members who sai...
Sep 11, 2016
Two of Canada's big five banks backing away from marijuana industry
TORONTO - Scotiabank and the Royal Bank of Canada say they aren’t providing accounts to companies associated with the marijuana industry, leaving some business owners scrambling to fin...
Sep 11, 2016
Alberta college seeks feedback from doctors on draft opioid prescribing rules
EDMONTON - Alberta’s medical regulator wants more stringent rules on how physicians prescribe opioid painkillers and other drugs to improve the safety of patients. The Colleg...
Sep 11, 2016
Some of the hearings by the Canadian Judicial Council into conduct of judges
A Canadian Judicial Council panel is holding a hearing in Calgary on whether Robin Camp should be removed from the bench after making inappropriate remarks when he was a provincial court jud...
Sep 11, 2016
Judicial hearings rare: Most complaints about judges never get to public hearing
Public hearings that consider whether a judge should be removed from the bench, such as the current one involving Federal Court Justice Robin Camp, are rare. The Canadian Judicial Council receives mor...
Sep 11, 2016
'We can't replace nature:' Oilsands wetland reclamation a mixed success
EDMONTON - The challenge makes turning bitumen into oil seem like the easy part. Faced with reclaiming open-pit mines that were once thriving wetlands, Suncor and Syncrude have been trying t...
Sep 11, 2016