Category Archives: Canada

LGBTQ activists in Caribbean ask Canada for support, not salvation
OTTAWA - Canada should remember that as it promotes LGBTQ rights on the world stage, it should also listen to - and support - those fighting on the ground. This was the message that Jason Jones, from ...
Kayla Derkach Apr 12, 2017
Domestic politics, placating Trump behind Canada's Syria position, observers say
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s sudden about-face on the Syrian gas attack last week had politics and appeasing the Americans written all over it, an expert in Middle Eastern policy say...
Kayla Derkach Apr 12, 2017
Ontario highway closed as wandering beaver refuses to leave
CAMBRIDGE, Ont. - A wandering beaver shut down part of a highway in southern Ontario on Wednesday as police worked to get the animal back to its natural habitat. Ontario Provincial Police Sgt. Kerry S...
Kayla Derkach Apr 12, 2017
The Cheesecake Factory restaurant chain to open a location in Toronto
TORONTO - Forget making that trip to Buffalo, The Cheesecake Factory will soon be in Canada. The U.S. restaurant chain says it will be opening its first Canadian location at Toronto’s Yorkdale S...
Kayla Derkach Apr 12, 2017
Lac-Megantic criminal negligence trial in September to be bilingual
SHERBROOKE, Que. - The trial later this year for three ex-railway employees charged criminally in the Lac-Megantic train disaster will be heard by a bilingual jury in another town. A spokesman for the...
Kayla Derkach Apr 12, 2017

Atlantic premiers pledge co-operation to grow region's clean energy sector
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Atlantic Canada’s premiers pledged Wednesday to grow the region’s clean-energy sector, saying a new partnership will be developed this summer. After a meeting in Saint J...
Kayla Derkach Apr 12, 2017

Toronto's hot housing market driven more by speculators than homebuyers: Poloz
A jump of more than 30 per cent in house prices in Toronto suggests that demand is being driven more by real estate speculators and investors than homebuyers, Canada’s top banker said Wednesday....
Kayla Derkach Apr 12, 2017
Not just Nazis: Sean Spicer's gaffe-filled week goes well beyond Hitler
WASHINGTON - An accidental foray into Holocaust revisionism was merely the capstone to an edifice of error erected this week by the spokesman for Donald Trump’s White House. It was the eye-poppi...
Kayla Derkach Apr 12, 2017
Opposition derides N.S. premier's sudden spending promises on hospitals
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s opposition parties are accusing the Liberal government of playing pre-election politics with hospitals after the premier rolled out promises for a new facility in Pugwash...
Kayla Derkach Apr 12, 2017
Proposed elevator-maintenance law heads for debate amid contractor concerns
TORONTO - Proposed Ontario legislation that aims to tackle the problem of unreliable elevators has garnered strong public support as well as push-back from contractors who fear they would become targe...
Kayla Derkach Apr 12, 2017

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