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Wall Street climbs as volatility keeps squeezing markets
NEW YORK - Stocks are climbing again on Wall Street Wednesday. Maybe this time it will last. The S&P 500 was up more than 2% in midday trading, a day after an even bigger gain suddenly vanished in...
Apr 08, 2020
UK truck driver pleads guilty in deaths of 39 Vietnamese
LONDON - A truck driver accused in the deaths of 39 Vietnamese migrants whose bodies were found inside a refrigerated container that had been hauled to England pleaded guilty to manslaughter Wednesday...
Apr 08, 2020
All provincial parks to close immediately amid COVID-19 risk
VICTORIA - With a long weekend around the corner and the risk of COVID-19 still heightened, the province is immediately closing all provincial parks.According to a release from the provincial governme...
Apr 08, 2020 Image Credit: Kent Simmonds
Toronto company expands ventilator production tenfold to meet demand
OTTAWA - One of the companies making ventilators for the federal government is expanding its production capacity more than tenfold to meet demands posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Thornhill Medical CEO...
Apr 08, 2020
Sanders drops 2020 bid, leaving Biden as likely nominee to challenge Trump
WASHINGTON - Sen. Bernie Sanders, who saw his once strong lead in the Democratic primary evaporate as the party's establishment lined swiftly up behind rival Joe Biden, ended his presidential bid on W...
Apr 08, 2020
Watchdog: Syrian air force responsible for chemical attacks
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - The global chemical weapons watchdog issued a report Wednesday blaming the Syrian air force for a series of chemical attacks using sarin and chlorine in late March 2017 on the...
Apr 08, 2020
Critics alarmed by Ontario's testing shortfall
TORONTO - Ontario's overly cautious approach to COVID-19 testing is endangering lives and hindering efforts to rein in soaring infections that are ravaging long-term care facilities, filling ICU beds ...
Apr 08, 2020
'What's taking so long?' Conservatives call for faster aid for businesses
OTTAWA - Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre says relief from the federal government for small businesses suffering losses due to COVID-19 is not rolling out fast enough. He says the United S...
Apr 08, 2020
Vancity temporarily cuts credit card interest rates to zero for those in need
VANCOUVER - Vancity is temporarily cutting credit card interest rates to zero and deferring minimum payments for those facing financial difficulty as a result of COVID-19. The credit union says person...
Apr 08, 2020
Jean Truchon, who fought to expand medically assisted death, receives procedure
MONTREAL - One of the two Quebecers who successfully fought to expand medically assisted dying has received the procedure. Jean Truchon says in a statement released posthumously that the COV...
Apr 08, 2020
