Category Archives: National
Coalition pushes for automatic sealing of a criminal record if no new convictions
OTTAWA — Dozens of civil society groups are urging the federal Liberals to fundamentally revamp the criminal pardon system by automatically sealing a person's record once they have completed their sentence and lived in the community without new convict...
Annual inflation rate rises to 4.7 per cent in October, Statistics Canada says
OTTAWA — Rising prices at the pumps and in grocery stores helped send inflation rates to a new pandemic-era high last month, as the consumer price index posted its largest year-over-year gain in 18 years. Statistics Canada said Wednesday the annual
New Nunavut premier: P.J. Akeeagok to focus on child care, housing, mental health
IQALUIT — Members of Nunavut's legislative assembly have chosen the territory's next leader in a secret ballot. P.J. Akeeagok will be the new premier of the territory of about 40,000 people. He is to be sworn into the job on Friday. Akeeagok,
Canada, South Asian bloc to begin free-trade talks in effort to diversify from China
OTTAWA — Canada is launching free-trade talks with a major group of southeast Asian countries as it seeks to diversify from China and find new ways of coping with a snarled global supply chain. International Trade Minister Mary Ng announced the
O’Toole boots senator who challenged his leadership out of Conservative caucus.
OTTAWA — Erin O'Toole kicked Sen. Denise Batters out of the Conservative caucus Tuesday — one day after she challenged his leadership. "As the leader of the Conservative Party of Canada, I will not tolerate an individual discrediting and showing a
Michigan judge rejects attorney general’s effort to move Line 5 case to state court
WASHINGTON — Calgary-based Enbridge Inc. scored a key victory in the Line 5 dispute Tuesday as a judge in Michigan rejected the state attorney general's bid to get the dispute over the cross-border pipeline kicked out of federal court. U.S.
Michigan judge rejects attorney general’s effort to move Line 5 case to state court
WASHINGTON — A judge in Michigan has rejected the state attorney general's effort to get the dispute over the Line 5 cross-border pipeline kicked out of federal court. U.S. Circuit Court Judge Janet Neff issued the long-awaited written ruling late Tue...
Veterans Affairs’ case managers near ‘breaking point,’ union warns
OTTAWA — The head of the union representing Veterans Affairs Canada case managers is warning her members are near their “breaking point” thanks to an excessive amount of work and lack of support from higher ups. Yet Virginia Vaillancourt of the
Montreal mayor calls for federal action on gun violence after teen’s shooting
MONTREAL — The "cowardly" shooting of a 16-year-old boy Sunday in Montreal is renewing calls for the government to do more about gun violence as authorities work to solve his murder. Thomas Trudel, 16, was killed in the city's St-Michel district
Discussions to resolve B.C. pipeline blockade have reached a pivotal point: Miller
OTTAWA — Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Marc Miller says all parties are at a "critical junction" in the discussions toward a resolution on the blockade set up at the Coastal GasLink natural gas pipeline in British Columbia. Miller adds that it is...
