MONTREAL — Ken Pereira, one of the first people to blow the whistle on corruption in Quebec’s construction industry, is running as a Quebec City-area candidate in the fall election for Maxime Bernier’s nascent People’s Party of Canada. But instead of being noticed for his public service, the former president of an industrial mechanics union […]
OTTAWA — Statistics Canada has offered a sobering assessment of the Canadian Forces’ four-year war on sexual misconduct, suggesting in a new report Wednesday that the military has made only minimal progress on several fronts. The report was the result of a survey of about 36,000 service members conducted by Statistics Canada for the military […]
TRUJILLO, Honduras—A British Columbia woman says her pilot brother was killed in a plane crash in Honduras on Saturday. In a phone interview with The Canadian Press on Sunday, Jenna Forseth confirmed her brother Patrick was killed in the crash in the Roatan area, a popular island destination for tourists to the Central American country. […]
OTTAWA — If the 2019 election ends up in a minority situation but the Tories have the most seats, Green Party Leader Elizabeth May thinks the Liberal government should try to form a new government with support from other parties. In an interview with HuffPost Canada’s politics podcast ‘Follow-Up,’ May said that if the campaign […]
REGINA — A Saskatchewan MP who has been sitting as an Independent following his ouster from the NDP caucus says he will be not be running in October’s federal election. Erin Weir, the member for Regina-Lewvan, issued a statement Tuesday saying he’s not running because federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh continues to block his candidacy. […]
TRUJILLO, Honduras — A 32-year-old British Columbia pilot who was killed in a plane crash in Honduras on Saturday is being described by his father as a spontaneous person who was a happy child. Larry Forseth said in a phone interview with The Canadian Press from Honduras that he had spoken with his son Patrick […]
Newly published research has concluded that food insecurity in Nunavut grew after a federal program was brought in to fight hunger in Canada’s North. The study, published Tuesday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, found that the ability of northerners to dependably put food on the table declined significantly during the years Nutrition North was […]
TORONTO — Kraft Heinz has acknowledged a rather unexpected potential Cree translation of its latest buzzy condiment to reach Canada. Mayochup, the crowd-sourced name for its pre-mixed mayonnaise-ketchup mashup, can mean something entirely else in some Cree dialects. Click Here: Sports Water Bottles Arden Ogg, director of the Cree Literacy Network, says that around Moose […]
OTTAWA—Canada collected more than $1.27 billion from the retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products over the last year and all of it will go to the Canadian steel and aluminum industry even though the steel trade war with the United States is over. Canada and the United States reached an agreement Friday to see the U.S. […]
VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Aquarium is suing the city and park board over the 2017 cetacean ban for breach of contract and claiming it lost millions of dollars in revenue. In May 2017 the Vancouver’s park board voted 6 to 1 to approve a bylaw banning whales, dolphins and porpoises in captivity. Click Here: Sports […]