Category Archives: Canada
Highlights of the Ontario budget unveiled Thursday
TORONTO - Ontario’s finance minister delivered the province’s fiscal plan Thursday, the government’s first balanced budget in a decade. Here are the highlights: ____ PHARMACARE FOR Y...
Kayla Derkach Apr 27, 2017

Ontario's first balanced budget in decade promises billions in health care
TORONTO - Ontario’s Liberal government is promising to inject billions of new dollars into health care in its first balanced budget in a decade, a fiscal plan designed to appeal to nearly everyo...
Kayla Derkach Apr 27, 2017

The Thursday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Thursday, April 27 --- PM SAY TRUMP WAS PREPARED TO CANCEL NAFTA: U.S. President Donald Trump insists he wasn’t bluffing about threatening to pull out of NAFTA ...
Kayla Derkach Apr 27, 2017
Canadian border agents among five charged with drug smuggling offences
TORONTO - Two Canadian border agents are among five people arrested on suspicion of drug smuggling. RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency say the agents worked out of Toronto’s Pearson Internat...
Kayla Derkach Apr 27, 2017
Another court delay for two men accused of assaulting Dennis Oland in prison
MIRAMICHI, N.B. - The case of two Halifax men charged with assaulting Dennis Oland in a New Brunswick prison has been delayed yet again. Convicted killer Cody Alexander Muise and Aaron Marriott, who w...
Kayla Derkach Apr 27, 2017

Kevin O'Leary says he tried to convince Bernier to quit Conservative race
OTTAWA - Kevin O’Leary may be gone from the Conservative leadership race, but he doesn’t intend to let himself be forgotten. Instead, the reality TV star and businessman said merger talks ...
Kayla Derkach Apr 27, 2017

Justin Trudeau defends carbon tax after visit to Saskatchewan farm
GRAY, Sask. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears to like farmer Todd Lewis’s combine, but Lewis does not like Trudeau’s carbon tax. Trudeau happily hopped into a combine during a visit ...
Kayla Derkach Apr 27, 2017

Engineering marvel: Ship begins laying massive power cable connecting N.L., N.S.
HALIFAX - Somewhere off Newfoundland’s southwest coast, a Norwegian ship has begun spooling out a massive, thick cable that will connect the island with Nova Scotia, a 170-kilometre voyage that,...
Kayla Derkach Apr 27, 2017
No charges after teenage girl sprayed with unknown fluid in Winnipeg mall
WINNIPEG - There will be no charges in the spraying of an unknown substance on a teenage girl at a Winnipeg shopping mall. Police say a forensic examination found the substance was non-biological in n...
Kayla Derkach Apr 27, 2017
Front line officers felt 'outgunned,' Moncton massacre trial told
MONCTON, N.B. - A senior RCMP officer says he warned superiors about the lack of firepower for front line officers long before the 2014 Moncton shooting rampage that left three Mounties dead. Supt. Tr...
Kayla Derkach Apr 27, 2017

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