Category Archives: Canada
Drugs, drinking water and buckets of bolts: how politics touched us this week
OTTAWA - Official Ottawa spent the week absorbing the aftershocks of aggressive Donald Trump foreign policy decisions. On trade: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in China most of the week, where the ...
Dec 08, 2017
Montreal forging ahead with plan to repeal pit-bull ban
Montreal Mayor Valerie Plante’s governing party is delivering on its promise to suspend the city’s controversial ban on pit bull-type dogs. City councillor Craig Sauve said in a statement ...
Dec 08, 2017
Main sections of first Arctic patrol ship assembled at Halifax Shipyard
HALIFAX - The main structural components of the Royal Canadian Navy’s first Arctic patrol ship have been assembled at the Halifax Shipyard. Irving Shipbuilding issued a statement Friday saying t...
Dec 08, 2017
Home and property of Quebec oil company president vandalized in Quebec City
MONTREAL - A far-left activist group has claimed responsibility for vandalizing the home and property of the president and CEO of Junex Inc., an oil and gas company conducting exploratory drilling in ...
Dec 08, 2017
Newfoundland man convicted in death of good Samaritan shot during robbery
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A 29-year-old man has been convicted of second-degree murder in the shooting death of a former firefighter who tried to intervene during an alleged robbery. Brandon Phillips s...
Dec 08, 2017
Health Canada to beef up safety information on labels of prescription opioids
OTTAWA - Health Canada is planning to update labels on all prescription opioids to strengthen safety information for those taking the powerful and potentially addictive pain killers. The announcement ...
Dec 08, 2017
Ontario government backtracks on municipalities' right to say no to pot stores
TORONTO - The Ontario government appeared to backtrack late Friday on an earlier statement that municipalities would be unable to opt out of hosting marijuana stores, raising more questions about the ...
Dec 08, 2017
Federal Court judge finds Packers Plus fracking technology patent is invalid
CALGARY - A long-running dispute over a well completion technology that helped usher in the shale oil and gas boom in North America has resulted in a Canadian court decision declaring invalid a patent...
Dec 08, 2017
Financial incentive for Quebec surgeons to get to work on time
Quebec’s health minister says he is “scandalized” that surgeons and anesthesiologists get bonuses just for arriving at work by 8 o’clock in the morning. But Gaetan Barrette sai...
Dec 08, 2017
Nova Chemicals spending $2B on new facility and expansion in Ontario
CALGARY - Nova Chemicals Corp. says it expects to invest in excess of $2 billion on two new growth projects for its Ontario operations. The Calgary-based plastics and chemical company says the funds w...
Dec 08, 2017
