Canada to join US effort to train Ukrainian troops
OTTAWA (NEWS1130) – Canada will send 200 military trainers to Ukraine, joining the US and Britain in an international effort to shore up the eastern European country’s battered and bloodied combat...
View ArticleIndian PM Narendra Modi gets raucous welcome from thousands in Toronto
TORONTO – Thousands chanted “Modi, Modi” to welcome Narendra Modi to Toronto on Wednesday night as the Indian prime minister made his first visit to Canada. On a day in which he announced the...
View ArticleProtest at the Ross Street Temple in South Vancouver
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Police are monitoring a growing protest at the Ross Street Temple in Vancouver ahead of a visit by Stephen Harper and the prime minister of India. People have been honking their...
View ArticleProtesters gather to greet India’s Prime Minister and Prime Minister Harper...
VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at a Sikh temple in Vancouver to several dozen protesters gathered about a block away. Their shouts could be heard at the Ross Street...
View ArticleHarper to meet WWII vets at VE Day 70th anniversary celebrations in Holland
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Stephen Harper departs today for an overseas trip to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. He is slated to join a handful of elderly veterans taking part...
View ArticlePrime Minister Harper, Gov. Gen. Johnston welcome birth of Princess of Cambridge
TORONTO (NEWS1130) – Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Gov. Gen. David Johnston are welcoming the birth of a princess in London. Royal officials say the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s daughter “was...
View ArticleHarper takes part in shortened climate talks on day two of G7 leaders’ summit
SCHLOSS ELMAU, Germany – Prime Minister Stephen Harper took part in the G7 leaders’ shortened talks on climate change today as their summit entered its second and final day. Harper’s office says the G7...
View ArticleControversial senator Don Meredith expelled from Conservative caucus
OTTAWA (NEWS1130) – A controversial Conservative senator has been expelled from his party’s caucus in the wake of a media report that he was having a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old girl. An...
View ArticleMetro Vancouver waits as Ottawa gives Toronto transit funding
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – The prime minister has announced the federal government is committing one-third of the cost of a multi-billion dollar public transit project for Toronto, but we still don’t know...
View ArticleCanadians blessed to live in best country, says Harper
OTTAWA (NEWS 1130) – Prime Minister Stephen Harper says Canadians are “blessed to live in the best country in the world,” and in his annual statement marking Canada Day, he says that good fortune is...
View ArticleReports Harper to call for abolition of Senate appear to be untrue
OTTAWA (NEWS 1130) – Today could be a pivotal one for Canada’s Senate. Prime Minister Stephen Harper is in Saskatchewan today where it’s expected he will call for the abolition of the Upper House. A...
View ArticleWhat to expect in first federal leaders debate
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – The writ hasn’t even dropped yet, but we are days away from watching the main party leaders go head to head for the first time. What will federal leader Stephen Harper, Justin...
View ArticleFederal election campaign officially underway
OTTAWA (NEWS 1130) – Prime Minister Stephen Harper has asked Governor General David Johnston to dissolve Parliament, touching off an 11-week campaign in advance of an election Oct. 19. Harper made the...
View ArticleMaclean’s National Leaders Debate may be only one with all four leaders...
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – The Maclean’s National Leaders Debate is just days away and it’s looking more and more likely it will be the only one where you’ll hear from all four party bosses. NDP Leader...
View ArticleHarper the only federal leader to not take questions from reporters after the...
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Now that the federal campaign is underway, it seems Conservative Leader Stephen Harper isn’t speaking to media much more than before. Harper was the only federal leader to not...
View ArticleWith two months until the election, expect a flood of attack ads: expert
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Like it or not the attack ads are coming. You’re probably going to hear a lot about Justin Trudeau’s hair or Stephen Harper’s economic record. With an extended campaign we’re...
View ArticleFederal leaders return to campaign trail as Duffy trial looms large
OTTAWA (NEWS 1130) – With the shadow of the Mike Duffy trial looming larger than ever, Stephen Harper is kicking off Week 2 of the federal election campaign with a headline-grabbing effort to crack...
View ArticleCanadians don’t want supervised injection sites in their communities: Harper
TORONTO (NEWS 1130) – Conservative Leader Stephen Harper says supervised drug injection sites like Insite on the Downtown Eastside have been formed based on dangerous policies and will make it easier...
View ArticleHarper taking campaign to the north, as Wright is set to testify at the Duffy...
OTTAWA (NEWS 1130) – Just in time for the resumption of the Mike Duffy trial, Conservative leader Stephen Harper is going to get out of Dodge. When Nigel Wright — Harper’s former chief of staff —...
View ArticleHarper using ideology over evidence in reference to supervised injection...
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Using ideology over evidence — that’s one what advocate is accusing Conservative Leader Stephen Harper of doing as he calls supervised injection sites dangerous. Adrienne Smith...
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