Author Archives: Syndicated Content
CRTC to get new chair as role of broadcast regulator expands
OTTAWA - The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission says its chair Ian Scott and broadcasting vice-chair are to be replaced within months and Canadian Heritage is now accepting ap...
May 13, 2022
Canadian warship hit with COVID-19 outbreak ahead of overseas deployment
OTTAWA - A Canadian warship has been hit with an outbreak of COVID-19 while preparing for an overseas deployment in the Pacific. HMCS Winnipeg is back home in Esquimalt, B.C., after seven sailors test...
May 13, 2022
Inukjuak men’s association teaching the next generation of Inuit hunters
INUKJUAK, Que. - Elder Simeonie Ohaituk sits on a caribou skin on the floor of the Unaaq Men's Association in Inukjuak, Que., pulling and cutting a stretchy, cylindrical piece of sealskin. He makes sm...
May 13, 2022
Quebec premier won’t participate in English-language debate ahead of provincial vote
MONTREAL - Quebec Premier Franois Legault is refusing to participate in an English-language leaders debate ahead of the province’s October election. Legault spokesman Ewan Sauves says the premie...
May 13, 2022
Mixed Texas ruling allows trans youth parent investigations
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The Texas Supreme Court on Friday allowed the state to investigate parents of transgender youth for child abuse while also ruling in favor of one family that was among the first c...
May 13, 2022
Canadian helping reform Ukrainian military says she’s not surprised by its resilience
OTTAWA - Jill Sinclair has been wracked by a combination of anguish, sickness and anger as well as extraordinary pride as she has watched Ukrainians stand fast in the face of Russia's invasion of thei...
May 13, 2022
Canada presses for G7 quick-reaction group on cybersecurity after Ukraine invasion
OTTAWA - Innovation Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne is proposing that G7 countries establish a quick-reaction group on cybersecurity to help build up resilience to attacks following the invasion o...
May 13, 2022
Law barring use of extreme intoxication as criminal defence unconstitutional: SCOC
OTTAWA - Canada’s highest court has ruled that the law barring the use of automatism, or a state of extreme intoxication, as a defence for some crimes is unconstitutional and called on Parliamen...
May 13, 2022
Chilly conditions break century-old temperature records in parts of southern B.C.
VANCOUVER - Highways through southern British Columbia’s mountain passes looked more like mid-winter than mid-May Friday as Environment Canada advised another five centimetres of snow was expect...
May 13, 2022
Quebec coroner calls public inquiry into Montreal firefighter’s drowning
MONTREAL - Quebec’s chief coroner is calling a public inquiry into the drowning of a Montreal firefighter last year. Pierre Lacroix, a father of two, died after he was thrown into the St. Lawren...
May 13, 2022