Category Archives: Canada
Highlights from Ontario's Changing Workplaces Review
TORONTO - A long-awaited report on labour laws in Ontario was released Tuesday, recommending wide-ranging updates to workers’ rights. The government has not yet said which of the 173 recommendat...
May 23, 2017
Canada dives deep into data to make case to U.S. on NAFTA, says Freeland
OTTAWA - The federal government is using a deep mine of digital data to map out what it says are the economic benefits to the United States of its unfettered trade with Canada, says Foreign Affairs Mi...
May 23, 2017
'Everyone makes mistakes:' Regina teen girl's killer apologizes in court
REGINA - A young man who was 16 when he killed his former girlfriend has told his sentencing hearing that “everyone makes mistakes.” The killer, now 19, read from a written statement as he...
May 23, 2017
Roundup of Nova Scotia campaign news
HALIFAX - (NSElxn) The leaders of Nova Scotia’s three main political parties were focused on the provincial capital Tuesday. Each leader spoke before Halifax council about plans for the municipa...
May 23, 2017
Toronto's landmark Honest Ed's sign to get a new lease on life at Mirvish theatre
TORONTO - Theatregoers in Toronto will soon come face to face with a piece of local history that once represented a new beginning for generations of newcomers to the city. The glitzy, illuminated sign...
May 23, 2017
B.C. election outcome still murky, two weeks after voters go to the polls
VICTORIA - The final count in British Columbia’s tight and inconclusive election will be known on Wednesday, but the possibility of a judicial recount means the actual outcome might not be known...
May 23, 2017
Quebec labour minister threatening special law in event of construction strike
MONTREAL - Quebec’s labour minister is threatening to bring in a special law in the event of a general strike in the province’s construction industry. Construction companies and labour fed...
May 23, 2017
A by-the-numbers look at the incomes of parents and children at age 30
OTTAWA - A new study from Statistics Canada says that Canadian children have, on average, fared better financially than their parents. The study compared family incomes of parents and children at age ...
May 23, 2017
Growth council's new tasks: unlock business spending, broaden job skills help
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government’s influential team of economic advisers is pursuing solutions to an issue that has preoccupied policy-makers for years: how to open the spigot on business investm...
May 23, 2017
Court set to OK deal in harassment class action by female RCMP employees
TORONTO - Approval of a settlement in a class action by sexually harassed Mounties is expected Wednesday, paving the way for tens of millions of dollars to start flowing to the women. During the heari...
May 23, 2017
