Category Archives: Canada
Ontario to spend $20M on sprinkler overhaul for small retirement homes
TORONTO - Small retirement homes that can’t afford to install automatic fire sprinklers, mostly in rural Ontario, can now apply for provincial government funding to get the life-saving systems i...
Oct 11, 2017
Feds ditch memo calling for controversial employee-discount tax, pending review
OTTAWA - The federal government has instructed the Canada Revenue Agency to remove a controversial tax policy interpretation that would have seen employees taxed for discounts they get at work. To cal...
Oct 11, 2017
Nova Scotia hires consultant to examine governance of school system
HALIFAX - A consultant is promising to examine all options in a review of how Nova Scotia’s school system is run. Avis Glaze, who served as Ontario’s education commissioner and as senior a...
Oct 11, 2017
Man and woman charged in Calgary quadruple homicide knew victims: police
CALGARY - Police say two people facing charges related to a quadruple homicide last summer knew all the victims. “I wouldn’t go so far as to say they were targeted, but I will say that the...
Oct 11, 2017
Musician Liona Boyd says Weinstein reports echo memories of sexual harassment
TORONTO - Classical guitarist Liona Boyd says the mounting allegations of sexual harassment against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein have stirred up painful memories. The five-time Juno Award winner s...
Oct 11, 2017
Hydro interprovincial ties will come, even as other renewables see price drops
WINNIPEG - Canada is transitioning away from fossil fuels and looking at more capacity for solar energy, wind power and interprovincial hydro transmission, Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr said Wed...
Oct 11, 2017
Saskatchewan teacher mistakenly hands out offensive Thanksgiving puzzle
MOOSE JAW, Sask. - A school division in southern Saskatchewan is apologizing after a handout with offensive words was mistakenly given to students. A Thanksgiving work package supplied last week to a ...
Oct 11, 2017
Activist charged with assaulting mayor in historic town's sewage feud
LUNENBURG, N.S. - Standing on the bow of his fishing boat, Bill Flower only has to look down to see a thick brown sludge belch out of a municipal wastewater pipe and into one of Canada’s most ic...
Oct 11, 2017
Stephen Harper offers a gloomy take on the state of international trade, NAFTA
WASHINGTON - Stephen Harper broke his public silence on current events by offering a gloomy assessment on the state of international trade, describing anti-trade sentiment in the U.S. as a long-term p...
Oct 11, 2017
Oil giant Chevron needs no costs protection from 'poor' Ecuadorians, court told
TORONTO - Forcing a group of Ecuadorian villagers to come up with almost $1 million before they can pursue a claim against oil behemoth Chevron would deprive them of access to justice, Ontario’s...
Oct 11, 2017
