Jan 17 2019 — The Canadian Press — A Toronto-area woman who admitted to attacking workers at a Canadian Tire store with a golf club and butcher knife in an effort to help ISIL has been found guilty of several terror charges. Jurors deliberated for just over an hour on Thursday before delivering the verdict in the case of Rehab Dughmosh, who was […]
Jan 17 2019 — The Canadian Press — The Bloc Quebecois has a new leader. Former Parti Quebecois cabinet minister Yves-Francois Blanchet was named to the party’s top spot early Thursday morning after no other candidate came forward. Blanchet, 53, served as environment minister under Pauline Marois between 2012 and 2014 and subsequently was a regular on a public affairs TV show.
Jan 17 2019 — The Canadian Press — Canadian officials are condemning the killers of a Canadian mining company executive whose bullet-riddled body has been found in Burkina Faso. Kirk Woodman, a Halifax man who worked for Vancouver-based Progress Minerals Inc., was found dead Wednesday in Oudalan province, an official with the west African country’s Ministry of Security said Thursday. Jean Paul Badoum […]
Jan 17 2019 — The Canadian Press — China is rebuffing the latest broadside from Canada over its detention of Canadian citizens, rejecting the assertion that China’s behaviour poses a threat to all nations. Instead, foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said today that people from China could be at risk following Canada’s detention of a Chinese telecom executive for “no reason.”
Jan 16 2019 — The Canadian Press — An Alberta United Conservative member is cleaning up after rocks were thrown through the windows of his constituency office in an act he says was partly to blame on inflamed NDP rhetoric. Dave Hanson says sometime Tuesday night large rocks shattered the windows of his office in St. Paul, northeast of Edmonton. No one was […]
Jan 16 2019 — The Canadian Press — The consultant who helped broker a $545-million investment by two northern Alberta Indigenous communities in a new Suncor Energy Inc. storage tank farm says similar stakes in the Trans Mountain pipeline shouldn’t take place until after its expansion is built. Barrie Robb, a principal with Fivars Consulting Ltd. of Calgary, says he would advise Indigenous […]
Jan 16 2019 — The Canadian Press — You might think the last thing you’d stumble onto on a rural road in central Kentucky is Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Chances are many of the people who pass by the intersection where Mammoth Cave Road meets Old Mammoth Cave Road don’t even notice that they did. But there, on the right side of the […]
Jan 16 2019 — The Canadian Press — The United States has denounced a death sentence imposed on a British Columbia man in China as “politically motivated,” adding heft to Ottawa’s effort to intensify international pressure on Beijing to spare his life and to release two other detained Canadians. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland conferred Tuesday and […]
Jan 16 2019 — The Canadian Press — The Canadian Press — TORONTO — A Hudbay Minerals Inc. investor has released a proposed slate of candidates as it looks to oust the current board of directors in a proxy fight. Waterton Global Resource Management, Inc., which holds about 11.9 per cent of Hudbay shares, says changes to the board and CEO are needed to address the company's underperformance. The investment fund […]
Jan 16 2019 — The Canadian Press — The Liberal candidate running against NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in a Metro Vancouver byelection has bowed out of the race after singling out Singh’s ethnicity in an online post. Karen Wang apologized Wednesday for her comments, saying that the diverse character of Burnaby South is a real source of strength. “In trying to speak about […]
Jan 16 2019 — The Canadian Press — The federal government is creating an external board of civilian advisers to help the RCMP modernize after years of grappling with internal bullying and harassment. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale and RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki announced the plan for a management advisory board today at a news conference in Ottawa. Members of an interim board […]
Jan 16 2019 — The Canadian Press — The appointment of David Lametti as Canada’s new justice minister has given new hope to those who believe the Trudeau government’s law on medically assisted dying is too restrictive. Lametti was one of just four Liberal MPs who voted against the government’s 2016 legislation that made it legal for incurably ill Canadians to get medical […]
Jan 16 2019 — The Canadian Press — Canada’s minister for public safety says right-wing, white supremacists and neo-Nazi groups are an increasing concern and threat to Canadians. Ralph Goodale said the groups promote hate, which manifests itself in violent anti-Semitism or in other crimes. “The van attack along Yonge Street in Toronto earlier last year had those kinds of roots,” Goodale said […]
Jan 16 2019 — The Canadian Press — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Tuesday slammed what he called the dictatorship of Venezuela as he tackled audience questions ranging from Canada’s approach to Indigenous issues to immigration and foreign policy. Speaking at one of a series of election-year townhall meetings across the country, Trudeau reserved some of his harshest words of the evening at […]
Jan 15 2019 — The Canadian Press — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada has asked China to spare the life of a British Columbia man facing a death sentence, calling capital punishment “inhumane.” Freeland also trumpeted a long list of allies that the country has courted in its efforts to free two other Canadians imprisoned last month after Canada arrested a […]