The Canadian Press OTTAWA–The relevance of the NDP in an election year will be put to the test next month in federal byelections called yesterday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Trudeau set Feb. 25 as the date for byelections in the Ontario riding of York-Simcoe, Montreal’s Outremont, and B.C.’s Burnaby […]
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The Canadian PressAllison Jones TORONTO–Ontario elementary teachers have taken the government to court over the province’s sex-ed curriculum in part because of a warning to educators that came along with it, their lawyer said yesterday. A Toronto court is hearing a legal challenge from both the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO–A Toronto-based publisher says Ontario’s finance minister is pursuing legal action against Patrick Brown over allegations made in a tell-all book by the former Progressive Conservative leader. Dean Baxendale said yesterday that lawyers for Vic Fedeli have demanded a full retraction of allegations of sexual misconduct made […]
The Canadian PressLaura Kane KAMLOOPS, B.C.–Indigenous people yesterday voiced their anger and frustration with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a chaotic town hall in Kamloops, B.C., loudly interrupting him to condemn the arrests of protesters at a pipeline blockade. While Trudeau was answering a question on accountability for the oil-and-gas […]
The Canadian Press OSHAWA, Ont.–Unionized workers at the General Motors assembly plant in Oshawa, Ont. staged a second work-stoppage after the company confirmed it would not reconsider plans to close the facility. Unifor said the protest yesterday morning lasted close to two hours before it ended, and followed about a […]
By Lauran Neergaard The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Is the pain stabbing or burning? On a scale from 1 to 10, is it a 6 or an 8? Over and over, 17-year-old Sarah Taylor struggled to make doctors understand her sometimes debilitating levels of pain, first from joint-damaging childhood arthritis […]
By Mike Stobbe The Associated Press NEW YORK — The U.S. cancer death rate has hit a milestone: It’s been falling for at least 25 years, according to a new report. Lower smoking rates are translating into fewer deaths. Advances in early detection and treatment also are having a positive […]
The Canadian PressMia Rabson OTTAWA–A decade-old goal to get at least half-a-million electric cars on Canada’s roads by the end of 2018 appears to have missed the mark by more than 400,000. The 2009 Electric Vehicle Technology Road Map for Canada, produced by a panel of experts in part for […]
The Canadian Press VANCOUVER–The Court of Appeal of British Columbia has given the federal government more time to fix its solitary confinement law after a lower court declared indefinite prisoner segregation unconstitutional. The B.C. Supreme Court ruling last January gave Ottawa a year to enact replacement legislation but the Appeal […]
The Canadian PressRyan McKenna MELFORT, Sask.–The driver of a transport truck involved in a deadly crash with the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team’s bus pleaded guilty today to all charges against him. “I plead guilty, your honour,” Jaskirat Singh Sidhu said as he stood before a judge in a court […]
The Canadian Press ATLANTIC OCEAN, At Sea–An Ontario-based record-setting solo rower is back at sea on his latest cross-continental expedition–this time joined by his 20-year-old daughter. John and Libby Beeden are nearly halfway through their 5,650-km voyage from Portimao, Portugal to Antigua after setting off about a month ago. Cheryl […]
The Canadian PressPaola Loriggio TORONTO–Ontario’s post-secondary institutions now are expected to have free-speech policies in place under a controversial provincial rule that officially came into effect this year. The governing Progressive Conservatives announced last summer that all publicly-funded colleges and universities would have until Jan. 1 to develop and implement […]
