Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Gwyneth Paltrow’s natural lifestyle website Goop, which has been widely criticized for promoting potentially dangerous products based on pseudoscience, is now recommending a do-it-your...

OTTAWA - Sen. Lynn Beyak could face an ethics investigation to determine if letters on her Senate website promote hatred against Indigenous people. Several of Beyak’s colleagues have requested a...

A pub in a building where Sir John A. Macdonald once had his law office is dropping a reference to Canada’s first prime minister from its name after receiving requests to do so from members of t...

TORONTO - The Ontario government is delaying the release of a consultancy report on elevators commissioned by the province’s safety authority last spring and delivered in November while it puts ...

TORONTO - Consumers shouldn’t count on Apple redesigning its phones and tablets to make them less addictive for kids, say experts, who caution that good parenting may be the only solution to kee...

MONTREAL - The head of Montreal’s Concordia University says he’s disturbed by the contents of a blog post that makes sexual misconduct allegations against members of the English department...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia judge has denied bail to Jamie Bacon, who is accused of counselling the murder of an individual. Bacon’s lawyer has said he pleaded not guilty to the charge and he...

OTTAWA - A trip to the dentist has resulted in more than just a sore tooth for hundreds of federal civil servants caught up in the ongoing battle with the problem-plagued Phoenix pay system, federal o...

FREDERICTON - Atlantic Canadians are a largely honest people, if a lost-wallet experiment is any indication. The region’s credit unions took 12 wallets and left them in public places across the ...

OTTAWA - Low-income seniors will no longer have to apply for an income top-up under a newly launched program to automatically sign them up for the benefit payments. As of now, seniors who automaticall...