Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir win second Olympic ice dance gold
GANGNEUNG, South Korea – Canadian figure skating stars Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir have won their second Olympic ice dancing title. In what was likely their final competitive performance, Virtue and...
View ArticleCanada’s Brady Leman wins gold in Olympic men’s ski cross
BOKWANG, South Korea – Canada’s Brady Leman has won gold in men’s ski cross at the Pyeongchang Olympics. Leman, from Calgary, was looking for redemption after finishing fourth at the 2014 Sochi Games....
View ArticleCanada settles for silver after shootout loss to US in women’s hockey final
PYEONGCHANG – Canada’s gold-medal streak in Olympic women’s hockey ended Thursday with a 3-2 shootout loss to the United States at the Pyeongchang Winter Games. Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson scored the...
View ArticleCanada’s Kaetlyn Osmond wins Olympic bronze medal in women’s figure skating
GANGNEUNG, South Korea – Canada’s Kaetlyn Osmond has won a bronze medal in women’s figure skating at the Winter Olympics. The reigning world silver medallist from Marystown, N.L., skating to music from...
View ArticleTrump itching to announce tariffs on steel and aluminum; Canada watching warily
WASHINGTON (NEWS 1130) – U.S. President Donald Trump is preparing an announcement with wide-ranging implications for the global economy. He’s scheduled to make a decision on tariffs for steel and...
View ArticleWhite House says no tariff announcement today; Canada watching warily
WASHINGTON (NEWS 1130) – The White House says it won’t be making an announcement today on steel and aluminum tariffs, an issue that’s expected to have major implications for Canada. U.S. President...
View ArticleTrump promises big tariffs on steel, aluminum; impact on Canada unclear
WASHINGTON, DC. (NEWS 1130) – US President Donald Trump has declared his intention to impose sweeping tariffs on steel and aluminum, with potentially wide-ranging implications for the global economy,...
View ArticleCanada far from willing to ban circumcision say observers
TORONTO, ON. (NEWS 1130) – A campaign to ban circumcision for infants and children has taken hold in Iceland and Denmark but is far too radical a notion for Canada to consider, say observers here....
View ArticleCampaign ramps up to block websites accused of piracy
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – There’s a push by mainstream media to block websites accused of piracy but some critics are calling it censorship. OpenMedia is reporting a month-long ‘Don’t Censor Canada‘...
View ArticleUS tariffs on steel, aluminum would have ‘significant, serious’ impact: PM
BARRIE, ON. (NEWS 1130) – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is calling Donald Trump’s plans for whopping tariffs on steel and aluminum imports an “unacceptable” move that will have “significant and...
View ArticleWhite House official: We can’t exclude Canada from tariffs
WASHINGTON, DC. (NEWS 1130) – If Canadians are hoping to be spared from American tariffs, they may be disappointed. A White House official told the U.S. Sunday talk shows that President Donald Trump...
View Article‘Potential carve-outs’ for Canada, Mexico on tariffs, White House suggests
WASHINGTON (NEWS 1130) – Canada may get a special “carve-out” allowing it to avoid the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s controversial steel and aluminum tariffs, a White House spokeswoman...
View ArticleCanada dodges tariff bullet, at least for now: US grants provisional exemption
WASHINGTON (NEWS 1130) – Canada appears to have dodged a protectionist bullet, as one of only two countries to receive a provisional exemption from steel and aluminum tariffs set to rip into America’s...
View ArticleTariffs: A quiet, year-long campaign ends with a tentative sigh of relief
WASHINGTON, D.C. (NEWS 1130) – In this most unpredictable era in Canada-U.S. affairs, a crisis-management unit created inside the office of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, devoted to Donald...
View ArticleCanada will not bend to U.S. steel tariff pressure in NAFTA talks, says Freeland
OTTAWA (NEWS 1130) – As the United States tries to light a fire under NAFTA negotiations, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says Canada will not be bullied or pressured by the United...
View ArticleCancelling NAFTA would be a ‘catastrophe’: Trump adviser
WASHINGTON, DC. (NEWS 1130) – US President Donald Trump has appointed a blunt-talking booster of trade with Canada as his top economic adviser, giving the northern neighbour a high-profile new advocate...
View ArticleCanada should ban trade in elephant ivory, says animal rights group
OTTAWA (NEWS 1130) – More than 125,000 people have signed a petition asking Canada to put a stop to the sale of all elephant ivory. Tessa Vanderkop, director of strategic relations and advocacy for...
View ArticleTransgender activist celebrating Service Canada rules around gender pronouns
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – A local transgender activist is applauding a recent move from Service Canada, to have their employees use gender-neutral language when dealing with the public. Service Canada...
View ArticleCanadians joining #DeleteFacebook amid fears about electoral meddling: experts
Many Canadians are pledging to delete their Facebook accounts as part of an online campaign encouraging people to permanently log off the site amid mounting concerns that the social media giant is...
View ArticleCanada expels Russian diplomats in response to British poison attack
OTTAWA – Canada has joined the U.S. and several European countries in expelling several Russian diplomats following a nerve-agent attack in the United Kingdom last week that left a former Russian spy...
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