Category Archives: Canada

'Dirty Chinese Restaurant' game denounced as racist by U.S., Ont. politicians
A Toronto-area company’s upcoming video game called “Dirty Chinese Restaurant” is being denounced as racist, but the business says its product is meant as satire. Big-O-Tree Games sa...
Kayla Derkach Sep 29, 2017
Canada's economy pauses in July, StatCan says, easing rate hike expectations
OTTAWA - Canada’s eight-month march of monthly growth in the economy came to an end in July, according to Statistics Canada, a development that could head off more rate hikes this year. Gross do...
Kayla Derkach Sep 29, 2017

WTO appoints panel to review Bombardier CSeries subsidies
MONTREAL - Bombardier Inc. sustained another blow Friday as the World Trade Organization formally established a panel to review CSeries subsidies at the request of Brazil’s Embraer S.A., just da...
Kayla Derkach Sep 29, 2017
Vatican diplomat sought in Canada on child porn charges
WINDSOR, Ont. - A Canada-wide arrest warrant has been issued for a Vatican diplomat accused of uploading child pornography to a social networking site while inside a Windsor, Ont., church over the Chr...
Kayla Derkach Sep 29, 2017
N.L. premier announces inquiry into delayed, over-budget Muskrat Falls project
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The Newfoundland and Labrador government is moving ahead with an official inquiry into the troubled Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project, Premier Dwight Ball announced Thursday...
Kayla Derkach Sep 29, 2017
Six stories in the news for today, Sept. 29
Six stories in the news for Friday, Sept. 29 --- VERDICT DUE TODAY IN RCMP LABOUR CODE TRIAL A New Brunswick judge is expected to hand down a ruling today on federal labour code charges against the RC...
Kayla Derkach Sep 29, 2017

Canadian Space Agency and its partners developing plans for lunar space station
MONTREAL - The Canadian Space Agency is working to develop robotic arms as its contribution to a small lunar outpost to be built by international partners in the next decade. Earlier this week, the Am...
Kayla Derkach Sep 29, 2017
Canada Post honours Canadian hockey legends with latest issue of postage stamps
TORONTO - Canada Post is honouring some of hockey’s greatest players with its latest NHL collection of postage stamps. The 2017 Canadian Hockey Legends issue includes Maurice (Rocket) Richard, J...
Kayla Derkach Sep 29, 2017

Jury selection complete for Lac-Megantic trial; to start Monday in Sherbrooke, Que
SHERBROOKE, , Que. - Ten men and six women were selected among 300 candidates on Friday to sit as jurors in the trial of three men charged in 2013 Lac-Megantic train derailment. The 14 jurors will hea...
Kayla Derkach Sep 29, 2017

Judge convicts RCMP in N.B. massacre, saying force left officers 'ill-prepared'
MONCTON, N.B. - RCMP officers were caught outgunned and “ill-prepared” to confront a gunman who targeted them on a warm summer night in 2014, a judge ruled Friday as he convicted the natio...
Kayla Derkach Sep 29, 2017

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