Category Archives: SaskToday.ca: National News

National Defence using U.S. cloud services for 'mission critical' applications
OTTAWA - Newly released documents show Ottawa has spent almost $1.3 billion on cloud services provided by U.S. companies, with most of the money going to Microsoft - and its uses include what it calls...
Anja Karadeglija, The Canadian Press Sep 19, 2025

Carney, Sheinbaum sign deal to deepen economic, security ties
MEXICO CITY - Canada and Mexico have signed a pact to deepen economic and security ties ahead of what is expected to be a challenging round of negotiations with the United States on a trilateral trade...
Alessia Passafiume, The Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025

Freeland called back to testify on BC Ferries' deal with Chinese shipyard
Former transport minister Chrystia Freeland is being called back to a committee to testify after emails suggested the ministry was given weeks of notice that BC Ferries was buying four new vessels fro...
Ashley Joannou, The Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025

Alberta to use notwithstanding clause on its three transgender laws: memo
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has directed officials to invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause in amending three laws that affect transgender people, says a leaked government memo obt...
Lisa Johnson, The Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025

CP NewsAlert: Alberta to use notwithstanding clause on three transgender laws
EDMONTON - Alberta Premier Danielle Smith plans to invoke the Charter's notwithstanding clause this fall on three laws affecting transgender people. An internal government memo sent last week from the...
Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025

'Uncle Osama': Iran-born B.C. RCMP officer not offended by terrorist jokes
A British Columbia RCMP officer who was born in Iran says he wasn't offended when fellow officers made jokes about terrorism and referred to him as "Uncle Osama." Coquitlam RCMP Const. Mersad Mesbah h...
Darryl Greer, The Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025

Eby says outcry over BC Ferries loan 'bizarre,' citing unfairness in federal funding
Concerns over a federal loan being used to buy ferries for British Columbia from a Chinese company are "bizarre" given the amount of money Ottawa has spent on ferries in Eastern Canada, including from...
Ashley Joannou, The Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025

B.C. man who claims he stabbed 3 on 'God's will' isn't responsible, lawyer says
VANCOUVER - The lawyer for the man accused of an attack at a Vancouver Chinatown festival says his client had no motivation other than a direction from God to stab three people and he should be found ...
Brieanna Charlebois, The Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025

Carney taps top aide David Lametti to replace Bob Rae as UN ambassador
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is appointing his principal secretary David Lametti as Canada's next ambassador to the United Nations. The Prime Minister's Office announced Thursday that Lametti, ...
Kyle Duggan, The Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025

Quebec follows Alberta's move to stop offering COVID vaccine for free to most people
Quebec is now the second province after Alberta to announce it will no longer offer free doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to its entire population, starting this fall. The decision matches a similar poli...
Miriam Lafontaine, The Canadian Press Sep 18, 2025
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