The Canadian PressSteve Lambert WINNIPEG–Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced some anger over indigenous issues and oil pipeline development during a town-hall meeting yesterday in Winnipeg. Small groups of protesters scattered throughout the crowd of about 1,200 people held up anti-pipeline signs and shouted “Keep it in the ground.” Another protester, […]
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The Canadian PressAllison Jones TORONTO–Ontario colleges have been ordered to come up with new salary proposals for their presidents and other executives after some institutions proposed pay hikes of 50 percent. The memo from the Liberal government comes at the same time a report says Ontario’s 24 public colleges face […]
By Maria Danilova The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Can women be brilliant? Little girls are not so sure. A study published Thursday in the journal Science suggests that girls as young as 6 can be led to believe men are inherently smarter and more talented than women, making girls less […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–A new Statistics Canada survey says almost half the country’s population could be an immigrant or the child of an immigrant within the next 20 years. It suggests the proportion of immigrants in Canada’s population could reach 30 percent in 2036–compared to 20.7 percent in 2011. And […]
The Canadian PressLee Berthiaume OTTAWA–President Donald Trump will loom large when representatives from several NATO countries gather here this week to finalize plans for deployment of a Canadian-led battle group to Latvia starting in the spring. But at least one senior official from the eastern European nation is counselling calm. […]
The Canadian Press WHALE COVE, Nunavut–Three men have drowned after a large snowmachine crashed through sea ice in Nunavut. Mounties say it happened Saturday near Whale Cove, on the western shore of Hudson Bay, while the men were making a cargo run from Rankin Inlet to Arviat. One of the […]
The Canadian PressJennifer Graham SASKATOON–Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has continued his town hall tour of Canada with a rather friendly and low-key public meeting in Saskatoon. Trudeau was greeted with a standing ovation last night before taking questions that gave him an opportunity to explain his government’s position on a […]
The Canadian PressCamille Bains VANCOUVER–The smell of rubbing alcohol permeates a tiny room where chronic heroin users inject a pharmaceutical-grade version of the drug three times a day to just feel normal. Justin Hall, 48, exits the freshly-cleaned injection room at the Crosstown Clinic in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside after his […]
The Canadian PressJordan Press OTTAWA–Internal evaluations of the Canada Pension Plan show the retirement system is poorly understood by most of the public–a problem retiree Evan Brett avoided only through luck and meticulous record-keeping. The 76-year-old realtor and his wife, Latifah, dove into their files at their Langley, B.C. home […]
The Canadian Press WINNIPEG–Prosecutors have begun laying out their DNA evidence at the retrial of a man accused of killing a 13-year-old girl back in 1984. Mark Edward Grant has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Candace Derksen, who vanished while walking home from school. Grant […]
The Canadian Press KENORA, Ont.–The Ontario Provincial Police says one of its officers has been charged with three criminal offences after an investigation that began this week. Police said the alleged offences occurred Jan. 18 when the officer was off-duty. They noted their investigation began Monday. Cst. Steve Tetreault, a […]
The Canadian PressChris Purdy EDMONTON–Bret McCann and his family got up in the middle of the night half-a-world away to watch a live video feed of a judge handing a life sentence to the man who killed McCann’s parents. Travis Vader was facing anywhere from time served to life in […]
