Federal Government Asked to Intervene After Quebec Agribusiness Owners Cut a Deal With Honduras Under Federal ...
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:11:30 -0700
Migrant agricultural workers from Honduras began toiling in Quebec fields this week, after a Quebec farm lobby group and Honduran officials cut a deal to bring the workers to Canada under the federal government's controversial Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) program. The TFW program...
Quebec Agribusiness Ramps Up "Exploitation Express" With Honduras Migrants
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:19:00 -0700
MONTREAL, QUEBEC--(Marketwire - 08/31/10) - Migrant agricultural workers from Honduras began toiling in Quebec fields this week, after a Quebec farm lobby group and Honduran officials cut a deal to bring the workers to Canada under the federal government's controversial Temporary Foreign Workers (TFW) program. The TFW program provides no oversight to prevent the abuse of foreign workers ...
Murrysville couple thwarts scam attempt
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 20:30:39 -0700
The phone calls "had to be an obvious scam," but they nevertheless perplexed Agnes and John Everhart of Greensburg Road.
Alta. premier to meet Pelosi over oilsands
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:46:16 -0700
Premier Ed Stelmach is scheduled to meet with the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, next Wednesday in Ottawa.
Ottawa piper wins big in Scotland
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:25:32 -0700
An Ottawa man has won a prestigious bagpiping competition in Scotland.
MacKay hails military families at awards
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:18:42 -0700
Defence Minister Peter MacKay hailed Canadian Forces members and their families as the "best Canadians" as he helped hand out scholarships to eight sons and daughters of those killed in service.
Alta. boy, 13, hit by school bus
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:17:22 -0700
A 13-year-old boy from Sherwood Park, Alta., is in hospital Friday with serious injuries after being hit by a school bus earlier in the morning.
Judge hands out stiff sentences for cocaine smugglers
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:12:40 -0700
A Quebec Court judge has handed out sentences he said should serve as a warning to four men who either pleaded guilty or were convicted of importing and possessing 218 kilograms of cocaine from Venezuela in 2005 concealed in containers flown to Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport.
LaFortune torture suspect to get psychiatric tests
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:03:42 -0700
Dustin Paxton must undergo a psychiatric evaluation as he awaits trial on charges of forcible confinement and assault in two separate cases, a Calgary judge says.
Boy, 16, charged in Winnipeg assault
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:58:40 -0700
Police have arrested a 16-year-old boy in Winnipeg Friday in connection with the seemingly random attack of a boy three years his junior.
Air Transat reaches deal with pilots
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:51:47 -0700
Air Transat, the airline operated by Transat A.T. Inc., has reached a tentative labour contract with its more than 300 pilots.
Lemieux named to Order of Canada
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:21:57 -0700
Hall of Famer and Pittsburgh Penguins co-owner Mario Lemieux was among 53 people appointed to the Order of Canada Friday in Ottawa.
Copper thieves hit Hydro-Québec plant
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:21:47 -0700
Police in Repentigny, Que., a suburb northeast of Montreal, are investigating a robbery at a Hydro-Québec transmission plant.
Man charged in Winnipeg cab assault
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:13:58 -0700
A 33-year-old man has been charged with assault and uttering threats after a violent incident against a Winnipeg cab driver Thursday evening.
Business loan scheme nets charges against 13
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 11:06:16 -0700
The RCMP has laid charges against 13 Toronto area men in what's being described as a complicated two-year investigation of a fraud scheme valued at $4 million.
Calgary teen's hate crime conviction a 1st
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:13:55 -0700
A teen who admitted spraying anti-Jewish slogans in southwest Calgary is the first person in the city to be convicted of a hate crime.
Impaired charges looming after St. John's crash
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 09:51:13 -0700
Police in St. John's said impaired driving charges are expected after a morning crash near a construction site.
Mining firm reaches deal with Quebec Innu
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 08:06:47 -0700
A company planning to mine for iron ore in western Labrador and eastern Quebec said Friday it has reached a deal with Quebec Innu to remove barricades to proposed sites.
Truck, horse trailer crash into ditch
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:43:50 -0700
A blown-out tire caused a pickup truck and an attached horse trailer to roll into a ditch beside the Trans-Canada Highway east of Winnipeg.
Free parks passes no federalist plot: PM
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 10:36:47 -0700
Prime Minister Stephen Harper is dismissing a Bloc Québécois MP's assertion that offering free passes to Canada's parks for Grade 8 students across the country is a federalist plot.
