Category Archives: Canada
Pot-related policing, border enforcement efforts to get $274M from Ottawa
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government has earmarked just over $274 million to support policing and border efforts associated with the plan to legalize recreational marijuana use. The government said Friday ...
Sep 08, 2017
B.C. government promises to tackle affordability, changing fixed election date
VICTORIA - British Columbia’s minority New Democrat government released an ambitious list of affordability-focused pledges in its throne speech Friday, and the possibility of delivering those pr...
Sep 08, 2017
Saskatchewan latest province to help protect boys from cancer with HPV vaccine
REGINA - Saskatchewan has become the latest province to offer a free vaccine to help protect boys from some types of cancer. The province says that starting this school year about 7,500 Grade 6 boys w...
Sep 08, 2017
Details about Ontario's plan to sell and distribute pot once it's legalized
TORONTO - The federal government has told provinces to devise their own systems for the sale, distribution and usage of marijuana when it becomes legal next summer. On Friday, Ontario outlined its pla...
Sep 08, 2017
Celebrity great white shark signals he's still off Nova Scotia coast
HALIFAX - Hilton, a celebrity shark whose travels have captivated Nova Scotians, has extended his summer vacation off the province’s coast. The 600-kilogram great white - tagged by the research ...
Sep 08, 2017
Child psychiatrist sentenced in Australia for filming boy in Edmonton bathroom
PERTH, Australia - An Australian child psychiatrist has avoided jail for child pornography offences that took place around the globe, including a bathroom at West Edmonton Mall. News outlets in Austra...
Sep 08, 2017
The concept of full employment, and what it means for wages, explained
The unemployment rate ticked down to a nine year low of 6.2 per cent in August, approaching what economists refer to as “full employment.” So what is full employment? It’s the lowest...
Sep 08, 2017
Crews struggle with southeastern B.C. wildfires as conditions ease elsewhere
CRANBROOK, B.C. - The unprecedented, aggressive behaviour of three blazes in southeastern British Columbia has forced firefighting crews to withdraw from the area, the BC Wildfire Service said on Frid...
Sep 08, 2017
Energy East pause puts Liberal argument on environment and pipelines in question
OTTAWA - Federal government policies tying environmental impacts to regulatory approval of pipelines are sending investors fleeing for more certain ground, critics and pipeline proponents said Friday....
Sep 08, 2017
Conservatives contemplate Quebec byelection, impact of NDP leadership
WINNIPEG - Federal Conservatives emerged Friday from two days of meetings, upbeat about the task ahead of holding the Liberals to account and strengthening their own party. The work begins in earnest ...
Sep 08, 2017
