Category Archives: Canada
TransCanada says it is engaging with landowners on new Keystone XL route
CALGARY - TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) said Tuesday it has started to engage with Nebraska landowners along the alternate route of its Keystone XL pipeline approved last week. Speaking at an investor d...
Nov 28, 2017
Early signs show vulnerabilities to high debt, housing have eased: central bank
OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada is flagging the steady climb of household debt and still-hot housing markets as the financial system’s top vulnerabilities - but it’s also seeing some early sig...
Nov 28, 2017
Threat reduced to B.C. coast as fuel barge safely reaches protected waters
BELLA BELLA, B.C. - The coast guard says a loaded fuel barge that broke away from its tug off British Columbia’s central coast has reached safer waters and is now moored. A tweet from the coast ...
Nov 28, 2017
Quebec gun lobby group backtracks on plan for rally at Polytechnique memorial site
MONTREAL - Amid swift and widespread outrage, a pro-gun lobby group backtracked Tuesday on a plan to hold a rally at a memorial site for the 14 women who were killed at Ecole polytechnique in 1989. A ...
Nov 28, 2017
Lawyer raises sex-fantasy theory at man's trial in death of N.S. police officer
HALIFAX - A defence lawyer appeared to suggest Tuesday that an off-duty police officer died accidentally during a consensual sexual encounter inside a Halifax apartment after encouraging Christopher G...
Nov 28, 2017
Liberal government launched Phoenix with 'no oversight' in place; Qualtrough
OTTAWA - The estimated cost of stabilizing Phoenix, the federal government’s snafu-stricken civil service pay system, has already exceeded $600 million and will likely continue to climb, the min...
Nov 28, 2017
Season opens in lucrative lobster fishery: 'It's a lot of boats on the water'
YARMOUTH, N.S. - It is one of the country’s most lucrative fisheries - and on Tuesday about 1,500 fishing boats laden with lobster traps headed out onto the water in darkness along Nova Scotia&#...
Nov 28, 2017
William Shatner seeks charitable donation to settle condo dispute
TORONTO - William Shatner says he would like an Ontario condo developer to make a donation to his charity to settle a dispute over the use of his name and image to promote an upcoming condo in Hamilto...
Nov 28, 2017
Canadians want to be freed from provincial alcohol monopolies: poll
MONTREAL - As the Supreme Court prepares to hear a landmark case on provincial beer and liquor monopolies, a new poll indicates Canadians overwhelmingly want to tear down trade barriers to alcohol - a...
Nov 28, 2017
In the news today, Nov. 28
Eight stories in the news for Tuesday, Nov. 28 --- PM TRUDEAU SET TO APOLOGIZE TO LGBTQ COMMUNITY Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will deliver an apology in the House of Commons today for discrimination...
Nov 28, 2017
