Category Archives: Canada
Federal costs to fight lawsuit from moms denied benefits tops $2.5 million
OTTAWA - Federal lawyers have racked up a legal bill of more than $2.36 million fighting a group of women who allegedly were wrongly denied sickness benefits while they were on maternity leave. The co...
Oct 08, 2017
More than 100 patients transferred to newly opened Montreal superhospital
Montreal’s new French-language superhospital opened its emergency room at exactly 5 a.m. Sunday, at the very same moment that a 109-year-old hospital down the street was closing its doors for go...
Oct 08, 2017
Woman, two young children dead after house fire in eastern Quebec
CAP-CHAT, Que. - Tragedy struck a small town on Quebec’s Gaspe Peninsula on Sunday, where a 37-year-old woman and her young twins died following an early morning fire. Quebec provincial police s...
Oct 08, 2017
How did an Islamic State flag end up in Edmonton? Flag sellers offer theories
A few years ago, Arif Dewji, owner of House of Flags and Banners in Coquitlam, B.C., got an odd request from a prospective customer. A man who seemed to be based in New York sent over the design of a ...
Oct 08, 2017
Key to success for independent Canadian breweries lies in 'economies of scope'
TORONTO - Canada’s remaining independent breweries know they can’t compete with the economies of scale and marketing capabilities of global conglomerates, so they’re concentrating on...
Oct 08, 2017
Singer gives up city to be artist-in-residence at her own P.E.I. microbrewery
MONTAGUE, P.E.I. - Ashley Condon spent years in Toronto, a singer-songwriter contemplating more years of wearily heading to her next road gig. “At the end of the day I just thought: What am I go...
Oct 08, 2017
B.C. attorney general says 'serious' lack of sheriffs involves low pay
VANCOUVER - Taxpayers are footing the bill to fly sheriffs around British Columbia as the province grapples with a chronic shortage of the courtroom staff and frustrated judges speak out about delayed...
Oct 08, 2017
No winning ticket for Saturday night's $12 million Lotto 649 jackpot
TORONTO - There was no winning ticket for the $12 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket sold in British Columbia. T...
Oct 08, 2017
More shakeup at inquiry into murdered and missing indigenous women
VANCOUVER - The troubled inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls continues to face shakeup. Chief commissioner Marion Buller announced Saturday that the inquiry’s director o...
Oct 07, 2017
New York terrorism case involving Canadian shows growing reach of ISIL: Experts
TORONTO - Experts say the guilty plea from a Canadian teenager who admitted to plotting to bomb major landmarks in New York City underscores the fact that Canada is not immune to the growing global re...
Oct 07, 2017
