Category Archives: Canada
Politicians promise help for GM workers; stress that saving plant hopeless
Provincial and federal leaders alike conceded the futility Monday of trying to persuade General Motors to keep its Oshawa, Ont., automotive plant running beyond 2019, and instead focused on ways to ea...
Nov 26, 2018
'It's bad:' Oshawa, Ont., digests 'devastating' GM plant closure
OSHAWA, Ont. - Shell-shocked GM workers streamed into the rain and chill wind after their union sent them home on Monday amid word that their plant would be closing by the end of 2019, dealing a blow ...
Nov 26, 2018
'It's bad:' Oshawa, Ont., digests 'devastating' GM plant closure
OSHAWA, Ont. - Shell-shocked GM workers streamed into the rain and chill wind after their union sent them home on Monday amid word that their plant would be closing by the end of 2019, dealing a blow ...
Nov 26, 2018
GM to close plant in Oshawa, Ontario
OSHAWA, ONT. - General Motors will close its production plant in Oshawa, Ont., along with four facilities in the U.S. as part of a global reorganization that will see the company focus on electric and...
Nov 26, 2018
GM to close plant in Oshawa, Ontario
OSHAWA, ONT. - General Motors will close its production plant in Oshawa, Ont., along with four facilities in the U.S. as part of a global reorganization that will see the company focus on electric and...
Nov 26, 2018
10 prized carp now the victims of slippery otter in Vancouver Chinatown park
VANCOUVER - An opportunistic otter that is preying on koi in a classical Chinese garden in Vancouver has eaten 10 of the 14 large carp in a pond as it continues to evade traps. A spokeswoman for the V...
Nov 26, 2018
RCMP spokesman during Dziekanski case had 'rage in his head,' widow says
BURNABY, B.C. - The last time Pierre Lemaitre put on his RCMP uniform with pride, it was Oct. 14, 2007, the day he responded to a call about a fatal police confrontation at Vancouver’s airport, ...
Nov 26, 2018
10 prized carp now the victims of slippery otter in Vancouver Chinatown park
VANCOUVER - An opportunistic otter that is preying on koi in a classical Chinese garden in Vancouver has eaten 10 of the 14 large carp in a pond as it continues to evade traps. A spokeswoman for the V...
Nov 26, 2018
RCMP spokesman during Dziekanski case had 'rage in his head,' widow says
BURNABY, B.C. - The last time Pierre Lemaitre put on his RCMP uniform with pride, it was Oct. 14, 2007, the day he responded to a call about a fatal police confrontation at Vancouver’s airport, ...
Nov 26, 2018
Former PQ minister Yves-Francois Blanchet to seek Bloc Quebecois leadership
OTTAWA - Former Parti Quebecois cabinet minister Yves-Francois Blanchet announced Monday he will run for the vacant Bloc Quebecois leadership. Speaking in the foyer of the House of Common, Blanchet sa...
Nov 26, 2018
