Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Ontario has called in its top business guru to head the agency that will handle the complicated task of selling and distributing recreational marijuana once pot is legalized this summer. For...

MONTREAL - More and more Canadian municipalities will be faced with the decision whether to permanently close natural outdoor rinks because of warmer winter temperatures, says one environmental studie...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia has hired two new sexual-assault prosecutors, in what the justice minister says is in part an effort to increase the number of convictions. “What we want to do is be more r...

TORONTO - The family of an 11-year-old Toronto girl has reportedly apologized for the “pain and anger” they caused, after the girl’s claim that a man cut her hijab turned out not to ...

Toronto is the only Canadian city on Amazon Inc.’s short list of 20 candidates for a second North American headquarters. The e-commerce giant received 238 applications for the opportunity and sa...

Toronto’s status as the lone Canadian contender in the race to land Amazon’s second North American headquarters could give the city a competitive advantage, one of the key players behind t...

Canadian authorities are warning people to stop eating laundry detergent pods, a strange and dangerous online trend that has resulted in more than 40 hospitalizations in North America. In a statement ...

Six stories in the news for Thursday, Jan. 18 --- FAMILY OF GIRL WHO CLAIMED HIJAB ASSAULT APOLOGIZES The family of a Toronto girl has apologized for the “pain and anger” that resulted fro...

VANCOUVER - The appointment of a minister of loneliness in the United Kingdom to tackle social isolation is an acknowledgment of a problem Canadian experts say needs to be addressed here as well. B.C....

OTTAWA - Sophie Gregoire Trudeau is hanging out with some heavy hitters these days - names like Michelle Obama and Martha Washington. She eats fruit and tree bark, and spends her time caring for her n...