Toronto van attack suspect was briefly a military recruit
Federal Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has confirmed that last year Toronto van attack suspect, Alek Minassian, was in military recruit training for 16 days. Minassian then left by voluntary release –...
View ArticleOttawa claims price on carbon could cut 90 million tonnes of emissions by 2022
A new Environment and Climate Change Canada analysis says the federal government’s carbon-pricing plan could eliminate up to 90 million tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2022, but whether that actually...
View ArticleExpanded parental leave, new caregiver benefit, to come into effect Dec. 3
OTTAWA – New mothers and fathers planning to begin their parental leave on or after Dec. 3 will be able to spread their federal benefits over a longer period of time. The federal government’s...
View ArticleOttawa offers options to international students after college strike
Ontario’s college students may be back in the classrooms after a record breaking five-week strike but, for some, there’s still some uncertainty over their future. An international student attending...
View ArticleFeds provide more details on revisions to controversial tax proposals
OTTAWA — The federal government is releasing more details on changes to its controversial tax proposals in hopes of further addressing deep concerns over reforms that have angered the small-business...
View ArticleFeds make crash avoidance systems mandatory for all new trucks and buses
OTTAWA – New trucks and buses sold in Canada will have to include crash-avoidance technology under newly approved federal regulations. Electronic stability control technology on school and heavy buses...
View ArticleDon’t ‘jump to conclusions’ on pot timing, federal public safety minister says
OTTAWA — The federal public safety minister says people shouldn’t jump to conclusions about when they’ll be able to buy marijuana legally, as a key federal bill makes its way through Parliament. Ralph...
View ArticleNew energy projects get 2-year approval window under new assessment regime
Major new energy projects will have to be assessed and either approved or denied within two years under a massive new national assessment bill being introduced in the House of Commons. Environment...
View ArticleFeds turn eye to career college students in effort to collect more student loans
OTTAWA — Federal officials, as part of the government’s latest efforts to crack down on bad debts, are trying to figure out why graduates from private career colleges are more likely to have problems...
View ArticleToronto van attack suspect was briefly a military recruit
Federal Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan has confirmed that last year Toronto van attack suspect, Alek Minassian, was in military recruit training for 16 days. Minassian then left by voluntary release –...
View ArticleOttawa claims price on carbon could cut 90 million tonnes of emissions by 2022
A new Environment and Climate Change Canada analysis says the federal government’s carbon-pricing plan could eliminate up to 90 million tonnes of carbon dioxide by 2022, but whether that actually...
View ArticleOttawa to give $50M to Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba for asylum seeker costs
The federal government will provide $50 million to Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba to help pay for some of the costs they have borne as a result of the influx of asylum seekers illegally crossing the...
View ArticleFive people treated for overdoses at electronic music festival
Paramedics say five people were taken to hospital with apparent drug overdoses on the first day of Escapade, an electronic dance music festival in Ottawa. The Ottawa Paramedic Service says one of the...
View ArticleToronto council wants Ottawa to ban sale of handguns within city limits
Toronto will ask Ottawa to ban the sale of handguns within city limits, days after a teen and a young girl were killed in a mass shooting on the Danforth. City council had already been scheduled to...
View Article‘A little bright spot:’ Ottawa residents rescue dog trapped beneath rubble
A freelance journalist says the rescue of a dog trapped under the rubble was “a little bright spot” amid the chaos in an Ottawa neighbourhood ravaged by a tornado. Matt Day was in Dunrobin Friday...
View ArticleCanada reacts: Jewish communities across the country mourn following...
MONTREAL – Canadians are mourning the loss of 11 lives in Pittsburgh after a gunman opened fire in a synagogue Saturday. First responders and law officials in the Pennsylvania city said over the...
View ArticleSneak peek at newly renovated West Block of Parliament
We’re inching closer to the day Members of Parliament will move into their new temporary home in the West Block of Parliament. MPs are set to move out of the Centre Block, which will undergo its own...
View ArticleOttawa’s fall update features $16B competitiveness response to U.S. tax reforms
The federal Liberals have come up with a $16-billion answer to Canada’s competitiveness concerns. Ottawa’s long-awaited plan to help Canada compete with the United States for investment dollars is the...
View ArticleScott Brison resigning from cabinet, won’t seek re-election
Scott Brison is quitting a political career he loves to spend more time with a cherished family that politics made possible. After 22 years representing the Nova Scotia riding of Kings-Hants –...
View ArticleSmall shuffle expected to move Philpott to key economic post at Treasury Board
Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott will take on a key economic portfolio as president of the Treasury Board when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau rejigs his cabinet Monday morning. The Canadian...
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