Category Archives: National
Parks Canada capital budget falls as agency works on new plan for crumbling assets
OTTAWA — The capital budget for Canada's national parks and historic sites is being slashed by more than two-thirds this year even as more than 30 per cent of the agency's assets remain in poor or very poor condition. Parks Canada
Feds seek dismissal of planned class action against RCMP over facial recognition tool
OTTAWA — The federal government is asking a judge to dismiss a Quebec photographer's bid for certification of a class-action lawsuit, possibly involving millions of people, over the RCMP's use of a controversial facial-recognition tool. In a submission...
Battle for the base: What Conservatives think of Lewis – in a race against Poilievre
EDMONTON — It was a common refrain heard from Conservative party members gathered in Edmonton to watch the leadership debate: I like Leslyn Lewis, but I'm picking Pierre Poilievre. “I wouldn’t be heartbroken if she won," said Deborah Price, who is
Results May 18: Balloting complete in membership review of Alberta Premier Kenney
EDMONTON, United Kingdom — Volunteers began checking voter identification Thursday in a mail-in leadership review of Alberta Premier Jason Kenney and, if so inclined, the public could watch a livestream of the work on the United Conservative Party webs...
Peterborough police investigating after protesters hurl insults at NDP’s Singh
OTTAWA — Police are investigating after a video circulated on social media showed people hurling verbal abuse at NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh during a protest in Peterborough, Ont., this week. The federal NDP leader had dropped by the campaign office for
Closing Roxham Road border crossing will not stop arrival of asylum seekers: Trudeau
OTTAWA — Closing an unofficial border crossing in southern Quebec will not slow the arrival of asylum seekers, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday. “If we close Roxham Road, people will cross elsewhere," he told reporters in Ottawa. "We have an...
Dutch princess returns to Ottawa, where she was born during Second World War
OTTAWA — Princess Margriet of the Netherlands is visiting Ottawa, the city where she was born during the Second World War. The princess was born at the Ottawa Civic Hospital after the Dutch royal family fled to Canada to escape Nazi
B.C. mine environment safeguards whittled down by amendments, university study says
Some environmental safeguards built into British Columbia mine approvals are being gradually whittled away without enough public or scientific oversight, says new university research. A recently published paper from researchers at Dalhousie University'...
White House, senators have ‘sympathy’ for Canada’s position on Line 5, says Wilkinson
WASHINGTON — White House officials, Capitol Hill lawmakers and the U.S. secretary of energy have all expressed "significant sympathy" for the plight of Canada's Line 5 pipeline, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said Thursday after a day of...
Trudeau pledges more troops to Latvia, but mum on permanent NATO presence in Baltics
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau emerged from a private huddle with his Latvian counterpart on Thursday with a promise to bolster Canada’s military presence by deploying more Canadian Armed Forces officers to the Baltic state. Trudeau did not, ho...