Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - When it comes to winning over Canadian golfers, it helps to know someone. Ed Byman has that covered. Try this on for bona fides: Byman - a former PGA Tour player and veteran of the Canadian T...

TORONTO - Canada’s major cities are vying to become Amazon’s second home, with the mayors of Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal all planning to pitch the technology giant on their virtues. Am...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A New Brunswick man who sexually assaulted an underage girl is now suing her family and friends for brutally beating him. The man’s lawyer, David Lutz, says it was not up to t...

Seven stories in the news for Thursday, Sept. 7 --- PM TRUDEAU NOT BACKING DOWN ON TAX PLAN Justin Trudeau insists that his government won’t back down on a controversial plan to end tax provisio...

KELOWNA, B.C. - Justin Trudeau got a small taste of the kind of grief his backbenchers have been getting over the government’s plan to end what it calls unfair tax advantages for wealthy small b...

TORONTO - Playing notoriously hot-headed tennis legend John McEnroe on the big screen was “quite cathartic” for Shia LaBeouf. “To watch it now is something I’m very proud of,&#...

SUDBURY, Ont. - Former New Democrat MP Glenn Thibeault asked for paid jobs for constituency office staffers in exchange for running in a provincial byelection that Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne was &...

CALGARY - Canadian cannabis producer Tilray says it will invest 20 million euros (about C$29.5 million) in a medical cannabis operation in Portugal after winning federal licences there to import canna...

CHURCHILL, Man. - A new report says the broken rail line that is the only land access to Churchill, Man., could be up and running again by November for $43.5 million or less, if somebody steps forward...

SASKATOON - A Saskatchewan woman wants Air Canada to pay better attention to its young passengers after a cancelled flight home landed her 14-year-old in a foreign hotel with strangers. Csilla Vajda s...