Category Archives: Canada
Canada's tough guy move at WTO will gain U.S. respect, says trade minister
LONDON, Ont. - The Trudeau government appears to have adopted a good-cop, bad-cop strategy for saving NAFTA - coming up with some “creative” new proposals in response to unpalatable U.S. d...
Jan 11, 2018
Winning at wining despite the weather: new tech on trial at Ontario vineyard
Ontario’s wine makers and grape growers are nervously watching the weather, fearing that this year’s harvest could be literally nipped in the bud by an unusually cold winter. “WeR...
Jan 11, 2018
Province settles $750K claim of man sexually abused as a teen by social worker
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A man who was lured from the notorious Mount Cashel orphanage at age 15, plied with alcohol and sexually abused by a social worker has reached a $750,000 settlement with Newfo...
Jan 11, 2018
Ontario truck driver charged in Quebec in connection with fatal hit and run
MONTREAL - A truck driver from Brampton, Ont., is facing four charges related to a fatal hit and run south of Montreal last August. Harmandeep Singh, 23, was charged Thursday with hit and run after ca...
Jan 11, 2018
Iconic Sam the Record Man sign shines again in Toronto after more than a decade
Toronto’s iconic Sam the Record Man sign is shining again a month after crews installed it at its new home above a busy downtown hub. The sign, featuring two enormous spinning discs on a red bac...
Jan 11, 2018
Baloney Meter: will Liberal carbon tax really mean paying more for everything?
OTTAWA - “All Canadians can now expect to pay more for everything.” - Conservative party fundraising email — As Canadians shivered through a brutal cold snap in recent weeks, anyone ...
Jan 11, 2018
Exhibit of plastinated human corpses opens without controversy at Halifax museum
HALIFAX - An exhibition of plastinated human cadavers that has raised controversy elsewhere is being met with support, not protest, at its first stop east of Montreal, the Nova Scotia Museum of Natura...
Jan 11, 2018
In the news today, Jan. 11
Eight stories in the news for Thursday, Jan. 11 --- PM TRUDEAU HECKLED ABOUT KHADR SETTLEMENT Prime Minister Justin Trudeau turned angry heckling into enthusiastic applause as he fielded a question ab...
Jan 11, 2018
Royal B.C. Museum nominates Indigenous music collection for UNESCO program
VICTORIA - Her life was steeped in classical music, but Ida Halpern was passionate about the songs of British Columbia’s Indigenous people, music she set out to prove was equal to that of Bach a...
Jan 11, 2018
Jurors at Lac-Megantic trial complete Day 1 of deliberations
SHERBROOKE, Que. - The jurors at the trial of three men charged with criminal negligence causing death in the Lac-Megantic railway disaster completed their first day of deliberations Thursday without ...
Jan 11, 2018
