Category Archives: Canada

Ontario police bust international drug ring, seize 55 kilos of cocaine
Police in Ontario say they've busted an international cocaine smuggling operation with links to Mexico and the United States after a large drug seizure at the border. The investigation dubbe...
Apr 03, 2019

Speaker issues update of dress code at B.C. legislature; sleeveless clothing OK
VICTORIA - Women who work in British Columbia's legislature are now allowed to wear sleeveless dresses, shirts and blouses, after a preliminary review prompted alterations to the building's decades-ol...
Apr 03, 2019

Trudeau acknowledges SNC dispute, but some young would-be MPs turn backs on PM
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau is acknowledging the internal strife roiling his Liberal government, telling a group of young women that politics is often about reconciling opposite perspectives and differenc...
Apr 03, 2019

Manitoba joins two other provinces challenging federal carbon tax in court
WINNIPEG - Manitoba's Progressive Conservative government is challenging the federal government's carbon tax in court. Saskatchewan and Ontario have already launched court action. Manitoba Premier Bri...
Apr 03, 2019

Cryptocurrency platform QuadrigaCX should be placed in bankruptcy: monitor
HALIFAX - The court-ordered monitor picking over the remains of the shuttered QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency platform says the insolvent operation should be placed in bankruptcy. Ernst and Young says ...
Apr 03, 2019

Defence lawyer suggests Joshua Boyle's wife lied about an alleged assault
OTTAWA - A lawyer for Joshua Boyle is suggesting his wife made up a story that he struck her in the face at their Ottawa apartment in the months after the couple were freed fr...
Apr 03, 2019

Group of doctors calls for stronger gun control laws across country
TORONTO - A group representing doctors and other health-care workers pushing for stronger gun laws was holding rallies across the country on Wednesday, calling for a national ban on private owner...
Apr 03, 2019

Chinese complaint to third canola firm not a recent escalation: minister
OTTAWA - A spokesman for federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says China's move to issue a non-compliance complaint against a third Canadian canola-seed exporter was not a r...
Apr 03, 2019

Court reduces sentence for Winnipeg woman guilty of hiding infant remains
WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg woman convicted of hiding the remains of six babies in a U-haul storage locker has had her sentence reduced to three years. Andrea Giesbrecht was originally sentenced to 8 1...
Apr 03, 2019

JWR, Philpott no longer welcome in Liberal caucus; secret tape the last straw
OTTAWA - Liberal backbenchers and cabinet ministers alike condemned former attorney general Jody Wilson-Raybould on Monday for surreptitiously recording a phone conversation with the country's to...
Apr 03, 2019