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Conservative leader Andrew Scheer promising greater inter-provincial trade
Andrew Scheer is promising that a Conservative government would negotiate a deal to eliminate trade barriers among Canada's provinces.The Conservative leader made the pledge yesterday in Edmonton, dur...
Jun 05, 2019
Canadian D-Day film footage among the best known invasion images
HALIFAX - Some of the most vivid film footage of the D-Day landings 75-years ago was shot by a Canadian military film unit using technology obtained from U.S. allies. Unlike the American and British b...
Jun 05, 2019
Survey: Companies add fewest jobs in 9 years in May
WASHINGTON - U.S. companies added the fewest jobs in nine years, a private survey found, as manufacturers, construction firms and mining companies cut workers. Payroll processor ADP said Wednesday tha...
Jun 05, 2019
Killing, violence toward Indigenous women, girls 'not a relic of our past': PM
GATINEAU, Que. - Geraldine Gauthier clutched a picture of her sister, Lynn, as she heard from the federally funded commission tasked with documenting the causes of violence against Indigenous women an...
Jun 05, 2019
Trudeau arrives in United Kingdom for start of the D-Day commemorations
LONDON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in the United Kingdom with U.S. President Donald Trump, British Prime Minister Theresa May and other world leaders today to begin two days of commemorations f...
Jun 05, 2019
Leave of absence extension granted for Councillor Blackburn
City council has granted an extended leave of absence to Councillor Clyde Blackburn.He continues to undergo cancer treatment in Edmonton.This will last until the council meeting set for August 12. May...
Jun 05, 2019 Photo by Curtis Galbraith
Sephora closes US stores for diversity training
NEW YORK - Sephora is closing its U.S. stores for an hour Wednesday morning to host "inclusion workshops" for its 16,000 employees, just over a month after R&B star SZA said she had security calle...
Jun 05, 2019
In the news today, June 3
Twelve stories in the news for Monday, June 3 --- CANADA SUSPENDS OPERATIONS AT EMBASSY IN VENEZUELA Canada suspended operations at its embassy in Venezuela on Sunday, saying President ...
Jun 05, 2019
In the news today, June 5
Six stories in the news for Wednesday, June 5 --- D-DAY COMMEMORATIONS BEGIN TODAY IN THE U.K. D-Day commemorations will begin today in the British port city of Portsmouth, where thousands Allied...
Jun 05, 2019
Advocates see prison bill as way to meet calls of Indigenous women inquiry
OTTAWA - The Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies says proposed changes to a bill that aims to end solitary confinement in prisons would help address many recommendations fro...
Jun 05, 2019