Category Archives: Canada

No competition: Number of Ontario communities with acclaimed candidates rising
As communities across Ontario gear up for municipal elections later this month, a growing number of candidates face no competition at all. Figures from the Association of Municipalities of Ontario ind...
Andrew Snook Oct 14, 2018

A year into #MeToo, survivors' stories resonate online and off: experts
Jenny Wright remembers scrolling through her social media feed a year ago to find “every single woman” on her Facebook page issuing the same simple declaration: #MeToo. As the executive di...
Andrew Snook Oct 14, 2018

With Oct. 17 days away, recreational cannabis landscape still hazy
TORONTO - Jimmy’s Cannabis will be opening its doors to the public for the first time on Oct. 17 - but it’s still not clear whether there will be any pot products on its shelves. The Saska...
Andrew Snook Oct 14, 2018

Emergency buzzer had been disabled in young man's prison death: report
HALIFAX - An emergency intercom in the jail unit of a young Halifax man who died of a methadone overdose had been improperly disabled by guards who regarded it as a nuisance, according to a correction...
Andrew Snook Oct 14, 2018

#AfterMeToo group creating digital centre for suvivors of workplace violence
TORONTO - A Canadian group that pushed for change in the country’s screen industry amid the #MeToo movement is taking matters into its own hands after seeing a lack of action. Actresses Mia Kirs...
Andrew Snook Oct 14, 2018

Doctors to debate medical pot as more patients expected to ask for prescriptions
VANCOUVER - Doctors with opposing views on whether medical marijuana should be prescribed for various conditions agree on one thing: their profession is ill-prepared to deal with patients asking for a...
Andrew Snook Oct 14, 2018

Doctors to debate medical pot as more patients expected to ask for prescriptions
VANCOUVER - Doctors with opposing views on whether medical marijuana should be prescribed for various conditions agree on one thing: their profession is ill-prepared to deal with patients asking for a...
Kayla Derkach Oct 14, 2018
Ontario ticket takes Saturday night's $5 million Lotto 649 jackpot
TORONTO - A ticket sold in Ontario claimed the $5 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. And the draw’s guaranteed $1 million prize went to a ticket holder on the Prairies. Th...
Kayla Derkach Oct 14, 2018
Ontario ticket takes Saturday night's $5 million Lotto 649 jackpot
TORONTO - A ticket sold in Ontario claimed the $5 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. And the draw’s guaranteed $1 million prize went to a ticket holder on the Prairies. Th...
Andrew Snook Oct 14, 2018
Manitoba MLA says he's staying after reports he made inappropriate comments
WINNIPEG - A Progressive Conservative member of the Manitoba legislature says he has no intention of stepping down after reportedly making inappropriate comments to a woman who works for the partyR...
Andrew Snook Oct 13, 2018

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