The Canadian PressRoss Marowits MONTREAL—Resolute Forest Products is facing the threat of expulsion from the group that manages a widely-used international forest certification system. The Forest Stewardship Council said yesterday that its international board will decide in March whether to recommend that its 800 members vote to remove the Quebec-based […]
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The Canadian PressKristy Kirkup OTTAWA—Canada must find a new way of doing business with Canada’s aboriginal peoples if it wants to save money in the long-term, according to Truth and Reconciliation Commission chairman Murray Sinclair. As Finance minister Bill Morneau prepares his maiden budget, the federal government is under tremendous […]
The Canadian PressJoan Bryden OTTAWA—The federal Liberal government was warned yesterday that its plans to overhaul Canada’s electoral system could wind up plunging the country into constitutional wrangling—a spectre Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has vowed to avoid. Sen. Serge Joyal, an independent Liberal and acknowledged constitutional authority, said adopting some […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO—The agency responsible for most of Canada’s blood supply says people who have travelled outside of Canada, the continental U.S., and Europe will be ineligible to give blood for 21 days after their return. Canadian Blood Services said it is implementing the waiting period to mitigate the […]
By Mike Stobbe The Associated Press NEW YORK A sexually transmitted case of Zika in Texas has scientists scrambling to understand how much of a risk infection through sex is for the usually mosquito-spread illness. Experts still stress that mosquitoes are the main culprit in the Zika epidemic menacing Latin […]
The Canadian PressMurray Brewster OTTAWA—The Trudeau government has promised to get Canada back into the peacekeeping business, but a new report from two independent think-tanks says the military is ill-prepared for the task. The study by the Rideau Institute and the Centre for Policy Alternatives was penned by Walter Dorn, […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA—A United Nations’ human rights expert says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s talk of a “pervasive culture” of discrimination against Canada’s aboriginal peoples lends legitimacy to the issues and those tackling them. Barbara Bailey, the vice-chair of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, said […]
The Canadian Press WIARTON, Ont.—Canada’s celebrity groundhogs issued clashing forecasts this morninig but one of the country’s most prominent meteorologists said the debate over spring’s arrival is moot. “Spring has been here from the get-go,” David Phillips, a senior climatologist with Environment Canada, said as the four-legged forecasters made their […]
The Canadian PressAllison Jones TORONTO—An upcoming provincial byelection east of Toronto is starting to vaguely resemble an “Abbott and Costello” skit. One candidate legally changed his name to Above Znoneofthe so he appears last on the Whitby-Oshawa ballot, inviting voters to literally pick none of the above in both name […]
The Canadian PressGiuseppe Valiante MONTREAL—It’s universally accepted that parents want to die before their children, but outliving Cecilia Laurent has proven difficult. Laurent is believed to have turned 120 on Sunday and is possibly the world’s oldest person. Her 28-year-old great-grandson, Ronald Chery, said only three of Laurent’s 12 children […]
By Lindsey Tanner The Associated Press CHICAGO Surgery patients fared just as well when junior doctors worked longer than mandated hours in the first major rigorous test of regulations many physicians say hurt medical education. Nationwide limits on work hours were established more than a decade ago because of concerns […]
The Canadian PressJoan Bryden OTTAWA—Democratic Institutions minister Maryam Monsef concedes Canada’s first-past-the-post electoral system has its advantages. And, whatever its flaws, she acknowledges it would be welcomed in fledgling democracies like Afghanistan, from whence she fled as a youngster. But a mature democracy like Canada can do better, she adds. […]
