Category Archives: Canada
Texas man targeted 12-year-old Ontario girl using a messaging app: police
WINDSOR, Ont. - A 25-year-old man in Texas has been arrested after a 12-year-old Ontario girl was allegedly encouraged to send explicit photos of herself to him. Windsor police say the girl began chat...
Kayla Derkach Nov 16, 2017
Baloney Meter: How much is the government going to collect from tax cheats?
OTTAWA - “Our investments have already yielded results. We are on track to recuperate $25 billion from our efforts against tax avoidance and tax evasion.” - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. ...
Kayla Derkach Nov 16, 2017

Statue breaks 'bronze ceiling': Halifax unveils first monument to women
HALIFAX - They sang and played accordion, knitted scarves and sewed quilts, and served up heaping plates of roast beef and potatoes to hundreds of hungry servicemen. Now, more than 70 years later, Nov...
Kayla Derkach Nov 16, 2017

Canada and U.K. form alliance to phase out coal to combat climate change
OTTAWA - Canada and the United Kingdom have enticed 18 other nations to adopt their mutual goal of weaning themselves off coal-fired power - but at least two provinces are trying to negotiate their wa...
Kayla Derkach Nov 16, 2017
Six stories in the news for today, Nov. 16
Six stories in the news for Thursday, Nov. 16 --- CANADA OFFERS PEACEKEEPING TROOPS, EQUIPMENT TO UN Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has offered the UN soldiers, equipment and $21 million to help boost ...
Kayla Derkach Nov 16, 2017

Security detainee Mohamed Harkat seeks more freedom to go online, travel
OTTAWA - The wife of terror suspect Mohamed Harkat told a court Thursday her husband wouldn’t hurt a bug - literally - as she argued for fewer federal restrictions on his everyday activities. Au...
Kayla Derkach Nov 16, 2017

Quebec felt heavy public pressure to table strict marijuana law: stakeholders
MONTREAL - Public pressure on the Quebec government was so strong it had little choice but to table a strict bill on marijuana legalization that will give the province full control over the industry, ...
Kayla Derkach Nov 16, 2017

Valerie Plante sworn in as Montreal's first female mayor
MONTREAL - Promising to be a “happy warrior” for Montrealers, Valerie Plante was sworn in on Thursday as the city’s first female mayor in its 375-year history. Plante received a stan...
Kayla Derkach Nov 16, 2017

Cyber Insecurity: the high stakes of data protection in an interconnected world
TORONTO - What is nearly imperceptible, leaks important secrets and can keep Canada's top bankers up at night? A cyberattack. It’s not a punch line but a seriously haunting prospect for those in...
Kayla Derkach Nov 16, 2017
Five things about Canada's Walk of Fame
TORONTO - Six people were inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame Wednesday - sprinter Donovan Bailey, actress Anna Paquin, environmentalist David Suzuki, civil rights leader Viola Desmond, country ...
Kayla Derkach Nov 15, 2017

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