Category Archives: Canada
Court case over fired janitor prompts debate over meaning of 'Kafkaesque'
FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick judge has stepped in to answer a question that has puzzled some of the world’s most prominent thinkers: What exactly does Kafkaesque mean? In a new ruling, Justice ...
Sep 15, 2017
Court case over fired janitor prompts debate over meaning of 'Kafkaesque'
FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick judge has stepped in to answer a question that has puzzled some of the world’s most prominent thinkers: What exactly does Kafkaesque mean? In a new ruling, Justice ...
Sep 15, 2017
Health Canada announces ban on oils used for making artificial trans fats
OTTAWA - Health Canada is taking the final steps toward a ban on the main source of artificial trans fats in Canadian diets. The department says it is banning partially hydrogenated oils or PHOs, whic...
Sep 15, 2017
B.C. lifts state of emergency over wildfires but danger isn't over: province
VANCOUVER - The provincial state of emergency has been lifted in British Columbia more than two months after thousands of residents were chased from their homes and hundreds of buildings were lost in ...
Sep 15, 2017
Ex-Hudbay Minerals' security guard to be retried for murder in Guatemala
TORONTO - A former security guard for a Canadian-owned mining company accused of killing an Indigenous activist and leaving another paralyzed will have to face a new murder trial, an appeal court in G...
Sep 15, 2017
Former Toronto pastor convicted in pregnant wife's death to get new trial
TORONTO - A former pastor convicted of manslaughter in the drowning death of his pregnant wife at their Toronto home has been granted a new trial. In a decision released Friday, the Court of Appeal fo...
Sep 15, 2017
Canadian Human Rights Tribunal to revisit Air Canada retirement age issue
TORONTO - The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal will be revisiting the issue of whether Air Canada was wrong to force some pilots to retire at age 60. A decision publicly released on Friday says the trib...
Sep 15, 2017
'Nothing made it:' Ranch that offered trail rides gutted by Waterton wildfire
WATERTON, Alta. - A family-run horse ranch that was gutted by a southwestern Alberta wildfire this week was a major fixture in Shelby Barrus’s childhood. Alpine Stables, which offered guided tra...
Sep 15, 2017
Another overdose prevention site opens on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
VANCOUVER - Another overdose prevention site has opened in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside in an effort to relieve pressure on two nearby sites that have had 120,000 visits since last December. Th...
Sep 15, 2017
Strong market means little uptake yet in govt softwood aid, minister says
OTTAWA - Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr says forest producers in Canada have so far been largely unharmed by the duties the United States imposed on Canadian softwood imports earlier this year. C...
Sep 15, 2017
