Category Archives: Canada
Ontario elevator report: 5 key recommendations
TORONTO - Five key recommendations in the report by retired justice Douglas Cunningham aimed at enhancing elevator availability in Ontario: - Require reporting of outages over 48 hours when 50 per cen...
Kayla Derkach Jan 24, 2018

Elevator availability law planned for Ontario; report makes 19 recommendations
TORONTO - Ontario aims to become a global leader in tackling the growing issue of elevator entrapments and breakdowns as it acts on a report that recommends beefing up maintenance enforcement and sett...
Kayla Derkach Jan 24, 2018

Ontario government agency urges doctors to use caution when prescribing opioids
TORONTO - An Ontario government agency is urging the province’s doctors to be mindful of prescription strength and length when putting patients on a new course of opioids. Health Quality Ontario...
Kayla Derkach Jan 24, 2018
Responses to sexual misconduct allegations against Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown
TORONTO - Allegations of sexual misconduct have been reported against Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Patrick Brown, who resigned his position early Thursday while emphatically denying the cla...
Kayla Derkach Jan 24, 2018
Text of statement by Ontario PC Leader Patrick Brown
Here is the text of Ontario Progressive Leader Patrick Brown's statement to the media Wednesday night. --- “Ladies and gentlemen. A couple of hours ago, I learned of troubling allegations about ...
Kayla Derkach Jan 24, 2018
Saskatchewan man welcomes wife to Canada with special dance at airport
SASKATOON - A Saskatchewan man has welcomed his new wife to Canada with a single red rose, some fancy dance steps and a big warm hug. Vaibhav Thakar surprised his bride Himadri as she walk off a plane...
Kayla Derkach Jan 24, 2018

Ontario Tory Leader Patrick Brown resigning amid allegations about conduct
TORONTO - Ontario’s Opposition leader is stepping down amid allegations of sexual misconduct, dealing a severe blow to his party just months before the province heads to the polls. Patrick Brown...
Kayla Derkach Jan 24, 2018
2 Canadians indicted in 2012 Montana oil plant explosion
BILLINGS, Mont. - A federal grand jury in the U.S. has indicted two Canadians and an oil recycling company on criminal charges including conspiracy and endangerment in an explosion that injured three ...
Kayla Derkach Jan 24, 2018
Canada will push G7 partners to sign no plastics pledge to save the oceans
OTTAWA - Canada plans to use its presidency of the G7 this year to push fellow member countries to help stop the oceans from becoming massive rubbish heaps. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switz...
Kayla Derkach Jan 24, 2018
Winnipeg teen's killer sentenced to life with no parole for 16 years
WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg man who killed a teenager and dumped his body in a garbage bin has been sentenced to life with no chance of parole for 16 years. Nicholas Bell-Right had pleaded guilty to second-...
Kayla Derkach Jan 24, 2018

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