Category Archives: Canada
Bakers, grocers involved in 16-year price-fixing conspiracy: Competition Bureau
At least $1.50 has been artificially baked into the price of a loaf of bread during a 16-year-long bread price-fixing conspiracy involving the country’s largest bakery wholesalers and grocery re...
Jan 31, 2018
#Metoo movement prompting sexual-assault survivors to break silence to family
It was just this past Christmas that a prickly family conversation about the burgeoning #metoo movement led one Nova Scotia woman to do something she didn’t expect: speak out about her own traum...
Jan 31, 2018
Halifax removes contentious statue of port city's founder, Edward Cornwallis
HALIFAX - Isaiah Bernard always avoided driving by a statue of Halifax’s controversial military founder. For him, it was an obtrusive reminder of Edward Cornwallis’s bloody and barbaric ex...
Jan 31, 2018
Federal transgender inmates to be housed, addressed according to gender identity
OTTAWA - The federal prison system is changing the way it treats transgender inmates, who will now be placed in a men’s or women’s facility based on how they self-identify. Correctional st...
Jan 31, 2018
Confidentiality an issue in whether to release Hehr report; Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says confidentiality will be a factor in deciding whether to release the findings of an investigation into allegations of misconduct levelled against Liberal MP ...
Jan 31, 2018
Scheer: Tories to launch independent investigation of Dykstra controversy
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer promised an independent, third-party investigation of the Rick Dykstra controversy Wednesday as his own caucus members wondered aloud how the Ontario MP was ...
Jan 31, 2018
Anti-abortion group loses initial court bid over summer jobs program
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals have been handed a win in court over a pro-choice requirement attached to the Canada Summer Jobs program, days before the deadline to apply for funding grants. A Federal ...
Jan 31, 2018
Toronto school board considering overhaul of streaming practice in Grades 9, 10
TORONTO - Canada’s largest school board is considering a drastic change to its practice of steering high schoolers toward either “academic” or “applied” courses in an eff...
Jan 31, 2018
Alleged bank robbers arrested after stopping at Tim Hortons in New Brunswick
RICHIBUCTO, N.B. - A pair of alleged New Brunswick bank robbers were arrested as they stopped at Tim Hortons after the heist. RCMP say the Royal Bank of Canada on Main Street in Richibucto was robbed ...
Jan 31, 2018
Statistics Canada says manufacturing helps boost economic growth in November
OTTAWA - Strength in manufacturing helped boost economic growth in November as the sector posted its largest monthly increase since February 2014. Statistics Canada said Wednesday real gross domestic ...
Jan 31, 2018
