Apr 25 2019 — The Canadian Press — The United States is crediting tighter rules in the new North American free-trade deal for its decision to move Canada off a list of countries that it says are the worst violators of intellectual-property rights. Not that Canada is completely in the clear, however: the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is keeping Canada on […]
Apr 25 2019 — The Canadian Press — Canada’s budget watchdog says revenues from the federal carbon price will be more than $2.6 billion this year and exceed $6 billion a year within five years. The new analysis by the parliamentary budget office, which includes both the high-profile fuel tax applied in four provinces and a separate pricing system for big industrial emitters, […]
Apr 25 2019 — The Canadian Press — The oil and gas industry has worn out its welcome in Canadian marine conservation areas. Fisheries Minister Jonathan Wilkinson today is announcing a total ban on oil and gas work, as well as mining, waste-dumping and bottom-trawling, in all of Canada’s marine protected areas. Wilkinson is at an international nature summit in Montreal where Canada […]
Apr 25 2019 — The Canadian Press — Ontario is cancelling a tree planting program, with those involved warning the move will lead to the loss of jobs and environmental benefits that forests provide. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry told Forests Ontario the day after the Progressive Conservative government delivered its budget this month that the 50 Million Tree Program was […]
Apr 24 2019 — The Canadian Press — Former justice minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says she believes the federal Liberals have decided to “manage the problem” with Indigenous people rather than do the hard work of reconciliation. In a speech today at the First Nations Justice Council in British Columbia, Wilson-Raybould accuses her former cabinet colleagues of backtracking on the grand commitments Prime Minister […]
Apr 24 2019 — The Canadian Press — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says recurring springtime flooding is a consequence of climate change and citizens need to adapt to this new reality. He made the comments today during a visit to an evacuation centre in the city of Gatineau, one of the areas of Quebec hardest hit by floods after the Ottawa River burst […]
Apr 24 2019 — The Canadian Press — Former Canadian foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy is urging Canada to renew its relationship with Ukraine while expressing some reservations about the country’s new president. Axworthy recently returned from leading a team of 160 Canadians who helped monitor the election that saw comedian Volodymyr Zelenskiy elected president earlier this week. Axworthy said the election of a […]
Apr 24 2019 — The Canadian Press — The leader of the Prince Edward Island party poised to form the Island’s next government isn’t sounding much like his tough-talking counterparts in Alberta and Ontario, preferring the gentle “Island way” over the politics of confrontation. Dennis King’s Progressive Conservatives won the most seats in the provincial election Tuesday, and he’s aiming to form a […]
Apr 24 2019 — The Canadian Press — Kevin Pillar wasn’t sure how he’d feel stepping onto the Rogers Centre turf in a different uniform for the first time. “I’m still undecided,” the former Blue Jay said hours before Tuesday’s game, his first in Toronto as a member of the visiting San Francisco Giants. “Obviously I’m excited to be back here, a place […]
Apr 24 2019 — The Canadian Press — Job No. 1 done. And how. Kyle Lowry got the Toronto Raptors going with the team’s first nine points, and Kawhi Leonard finished with 27 as the Toronto Raptors throttled Orlando 115-96 on Tuesday, to dispatch the Magic in record time. The Raptors won a playoff series in five games for the first time in […]
Apr 24 2019 — The Canadian Press — A slim majority of Prince Edward Island voters have rejected a switch to a proportional representation electoral system, though it remains unclear how the province’s new government will respond. Voters in Tuesday’s general election were also asked to answer a referendum question: “Should Prince Edward Island change its voting system to a mixed member proportional […]
Apr 24 2019 — The Canadian Press — Canadian police say they haven’t been busting many more stoned drivers six months after legalization, but they are reminding drivers to keep cannabis out of reach. The Canadian Press canvassed police forces across the country and most reported no significant change in the number of impaired driving charges laid, while some said it’s too early […]
Apr 23 2019 — The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — Toronto police say they've arrested two men and laid 50 charges in an alleged string of thefts from long-term care homes in the city. They say they recorded more than 10 incidents taking place between April 3 and April 9. They allege the suspects would enter the homes in the early-morning hours, walk the halls looking […]
Apr 23 2019 — The Canadian Press — Voters in P.E.I. have shed their century-old embrace of the Island’s two-party system, electing a Tory minority government and handing the upstart Green party official Opposition status for the first time. With all polls reporting Tuesday, the Tories had won 12 seats, the Greens held eight, and the incumbent Liberals, led by Premier Wade MacLauchlan, […]
Apr 23 2019 — Morgan Lowrie, The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — MONTREAL — Although the only bridge to Montreal is cut off by water and hip waders are the only way to navigate the streets of his town, Ile Mercier resident David Dostie has no intention of leaving the home where's he's lived for almost 60 years. "I decided to work all my life for that house, I'm not going to leave […]