OTTAWA — Canada’s electricity providers say they need to appeal to a younger and more diverse workforce if they’re going to keep the country’s lights on. A new report on the industry’s labour needs from Electricity Human Resources Canada suggests at least 20,500 new workers will be needed in power plants and transmission systems before […]
Julian Assange, the controversial founder of Wikileaks, was arrested Thursday in London on charges of breaching bail conditions in a Swedish rape case that’s no longer under investigation. He was further arrested in relation to an extradition warrant on behalf of the United States, Metropolitan Police said. The 47-year-old computer programmer was arrested after his […]
OTTAWA — The Liberal government is taking steps to stem the tide of asylum seekers who’ve been crossing into Canada from the U.S. at unofficial border crossings. Tucked into this year’s 392-page omnibus budget bill, which arrived in the House of Commons Monday evening, is a provision that would prevent anyone who has made a […]
OTTAWA — Rob Nicholson, the longest-serving Conservative member of Parliament, isn’t running for re-election in the fall. Nicholson, who was first elected in 1984 in Niagara Falls and held cabinet posts for more than a decade, says it’s time for him to focus on his family. The 66-year-old has spent 24 years as an MP […]
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