Canada

In the news today, March 28

Five stories in the news for Thursday, March 28 --- QUEBEC TO TABLE LONG-AWAITED SECULARISM BILL The Coalition Avenir Quebec government will table its secularism bill today, fulfil...

Mar 30, 2019

Quebec bill bans religious symbols for public workers, uses notwithstanding clause

Quebec's secularism bill reflects the wishes of the Quebecois nation, the government said after introducing legislation Thursday prohibiting many public sector workers from wearing religious symbols a...

Mar 30, 2019

Engineer didn't check for right materials on stage that collapsed, inquest hears

TORONTO - An engineer who approved the plans for a stage that collapsed before a Radiohead concert in Toronto didn't check that the right materials were being used to support the roof because he trust...

Mar 29, 2019

Federal NDP proposes expanding tax on capital gains from investments

OTTAWA - Jagmeet Singh is promising an NDP government would expand the tax on investment profits as part of a package of measures aimed at taxing the rich to pay for pharmacare as well as affordable c...

Mar 29, 2019

Wernick issued veiled threats over SNC standoff, Wilson-Raybould says

OTTAWA - Jody Wilson-Raybould secretly recorded a conversation with Michael Wernick in which she claims the country's top public servant issued veiled threats that she'd lose her job as justice minist...

Mar 29, 2019

Canada won't extend peacekeeping mission in Mali: Freeland

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says the Trudeau government will not extend Canada's peacekeeping mission in Mali despite a UN appeal for it to stay longer. The eight Canadian heli...

Mar 29, 2019

Feds boost funding for refugee health care, but study says barriers remain

OTTAWA - Canada's refugee health program is getting a $283 million boost over the next two years. Immigration officials say the funding increase - contained in last week's federal budget -&n...

Mar 29, 2019

Combat boots begin cross-country journey to honour 75th anniversary of D-Day

VANCOUVER - A pair of combat boots has been loaded on a train in Vancouver to begin a cross-country journey symbolizing those who travelled to Halifax during the Second World War before they embarked ...

Mar 29, 2019

Trial set for man accused of swimming naked in Toronto shark tank

TORONTO - A British Columbia man accused of stripping naked and jumping into a large shark tank at a Toronto aquarium last year is set to stand trial in September. Crown and defence lawyers&...

Mar 29, 2019

Caitlan Coleman alleges she was hit, tied up, forced into sex by Joshua Boyle

OTTAWA - The estranged wife of Joshua Boyle says he allegedly struck her, tied her ankles and wrists with rope and forced her to have sex during an incident following the couple's forced captivity in ...

Mar 29, 2019