Category Archives: Canada
A list of Atlantic Canadian newspapers included in the Transcontinental deal
HALIFAX - Canada’s oldest independent newspaper has bought the newspaper assets of Transcontinental Media in Atlantic Canada. The Halifax Chronicle Herald said Thursday that a new company, SaltW...
Apr 13, 2017
Some of the highlights from Thursday's suite of Liberal pot-legalization bills
OTTAWA - Some of the highlights from the suite of bills introduced Thursday by the federal Liberal government to legalize recreational marijuana: - Sales to be restricted to people age 18 and older, a...
Apr 13, 2017
Victims of house fire in New Brunswick died of smoke inhalation: fire marshal
ST. GEORGE, N.B. - The four family members who died in a house fire this week in St. George, N.B., were all killed by smoke inhalation, fire officials confirmed Thursday. The provincial fire marshal&#...
Apr 13, 2017
Canadian accused in Yahoo hack plans to appeal after being denied bail: lawyer
HAMILTON - A lawyer for a Canadian man accused in a massive hack of Yahoo emails say he plans to appeal a decision that denied his client bail. Deepak Paradkar, one of the lawyers representing Karim B...
Apr 13, 2017
Finance minister to hold meeting in Toronto next week on GTA housing
TORONTO - The federal finance minister is set to meet with his Ontario counterpart and the mayor of Toronto next week to discuss the hot housing market in the Greater Toronto Area. Finance Minister Bi...
Apr 13, 2017
Easter Bunny to blame for being dropped as foster parents, couple claims
A Christian couple with “a strong religious faith” alleges that Hamilton’s children’s aid society closed their foster home because they refused to tell two young children in th...
Apr 13, 2017
Man charged in death of N.S. police officer released again on conditions
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia man charged in the death of an off-duty police officer has been released again after being accused of breaching his bail conditions. Christopher Garnier appeared in Halifax pro...
Apr 13, 2017
Loretta Saunders' family cheers after court rejects killer's bid for new trial
HALIFAX - The family of a murdered Innu student cheered Thursday after Nova Scotia’s highest court quickly threw out her killer’s appeal. “This now can make me heal and start trying ...
Apr 13, 2017
Winnipeg police certain woman is dead after searching accused's home
Winnipeg police say they don’t know where the body of a missing woman is, but say they knew she was dead when they searched the home of a man accused of murdering her. Sgt. John O’Donovan ...
Apr 13, 2017
Transcontinental sells 27 newspapers to Halifax Herald in blockbuster deal
HALIFAX - Canada’s oldest independent newspaper - whose newsroom has been on strike for over a year - has bought all of Transcontinental Media’s newspapers in Atlantic Canada. The Halifax ...
Apr 13, 2017
