Category Archives: National
Company wants to appeal decision that rejected proposed Alberta open-pit coal mine
CALGARY — The company behind a proposed open-pit coal mine in Alberta's Rocky Mountains has filed a request to appeal a decision by a review panel that rejected the project as being not in the public interest. Benga Mining Limited filed
MPs on finance committee to discuss timing for changes to small business tax rules
OTTAWA — A parliamentary committee will hold a rare summer meeting next week about when Ottawa plans to change tax rules on the sale of small businesses between family members. Conservative MP Larry Maguire's private member's bill passed amended the In...
N.S. police officer, wife launching complaint for ‘driving while Black’ stop by RCMP
HALIFAX — A Halifax police superintendent and his wife, a lawyer, said Friday they were launching a complaint alleging the RCMP stopped their vehicle and ordered the officer out at gunpoint based on racial profiling. The RCMP, however, issued a stateme...
Sending former defence chief’s case to civilian courts the only option, says expert
OTTAWA — The decision to send former chief of the defence staff Jonathan Vance’s criminal case to a civilian court highlights what experts say is a serious problem with the military’s justice system: its inability to hold Canada’s top commander
Ottawa promises plan to help Afghan interpreters, stops short on timeline
OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino insisted Friday that Ottawa is working on a plan to help dozens of Afghans who are facing Taliban arrest or worse for having worked with Canada, but he stopped short of saying when that
B.C. premier defends not declaring state of emergency over wildfires
VANCOUVER — There would be few advantages to declaring a provincial state of emergency in the battle against wildfires in British Columbia as the province uses all of its available resources to fight them, Premier John Horgan said Friday. Opposition po...
Canada to have new refugee stream for journalists, others who defend human rights
OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Marco Mendicino says there will be a new path to Canada for refugees who fear persecution because of their defence of human rights. The new stream will include anyone facing persecution for advocating or defending human ri...
New Brunswick Sen. Judith Keating, a ‘tireless advocate,’ has died at 64
OTTAWA — New Brunswick Sen. Judith Keating has died. She was 64 years old. Keating was appointed to the Senate in January 2020 and sat with the Independent Senators Group. She was a lawyer and constitutional expert who spent several decades as a
With Delta variant on the march, Canada eyes mid-August to welcome back U.S. visitors
WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials issued more ominous warnings about COVID-19's dangerous Delta cousin Friday just as Canada finally started floating the prospect of letting fully vaccinated American visitors back into the country as early as mid-Augu...
Supreme Court sides with Lac Seul First Nation over flooding compensation
OTTAWA — The Lac Seul First Nation of northern Ontario has won a key round in its long fight to be properly compensated for the flooding of its lands caused by construction of a dam. In an 8-1 ruling Friday, the
