Category Archives: Canada
Rogers considering sale of baseball's Blue Jays, stake in Cogeco
TORONTO - Talk of Rogers Communications Inc. possibly selling the Toronto Blue Jays, while keeping a connection to Canada’s only major league baseball team, makes a lot of sense to Norman Levine...
Dec 05, 2017
Manitoba RCMP say service dog Hix used his nose to help save two frozen kittens
WINNIPEG - Good boy! An RCMP service dog named Hix has earned a hero biscuit for helping save two frozen kittens in rural Manitoba. RCMP say Hix and his handler were exercising on a dirt road when the...
Dec 05, 2017
World at "pivot point," needs to embrace openness free trade, PM says
GUANGZHOU, China - The world is at a “pivot point” and will fail unless countries embrace free trade and elevate their citizens who have been left behind by globalization, Prime Minister J...
Dec 05, 2017
B.C. woman saved after falling from vehicle, spending 12 hours down cliff
VERNON, B.C. - A British Columbia woman is expected to “be just fine” after spending a night outside when her vehicle drove off a North Okanagan highway early Monday afternoon. Rescue crew...
Dec 05, 2017
Government faces balancing act on marketing, packaging of legal marijuana
VANCOUVER - David Brown’s marijuana marketing students are often shocked to learn how difficult it is to - well - market marijuana. Advertising medical cannabis is essentially banned in Canada, ...
Dec 05, 2017
Quebec union of municipalities says no to pot near schools or in poor districts
QUEBEC - Cannabis shouldn’t be sold near schools or in underprivileged areas, the president of the organization that represents Quebec’s municipalities said Tuesday. It will be municipalit...
Dec 05, 2017
Ridding the Indian Act of sexism could cost $400M a year, budget watchdog warns
OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget office says efforts to eliminate sexism from the Indian Act - which in some cases continues to allow fathers, but not mothers, to pass along their First Nations statu...
Dec 05, 2017
A brief look at provincial approaches to recreational marijuana sales
British Columbia and Manitoba are the latest provinces to outline their plans for the sale of marijuana with legalization looming July 1. Here is a glance at provincial and territorial plans to date. ...
Dec 05, 2017
Is the increasingly assertive Xi the same man Trudeau met last year?
The setting must have looked familiar to Justin Trudeau as he returned to a gleaming state guesthouse in Beijing for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, his second visit in 15 months. This time, ...
Dec 05, 2017
Bill would create Ontario poet laureate position in memory of Gord Downie
TORONTO - An NDP member of the Ontario legislature wants to enshrine the name of late Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie in a law creating the province’s first poet laureate. Percy HatfieldR...
Dec 05, 2017
