Category Archives: Canada
What's the big spy scandal in Washington? Depends which party you're asking
WASHINGTON - Barack Obama fretted in his final days as president that Americans are so bitterly divided by politics, so isolated and esconced in disconnected conversations, that it would be easy for a...
Apr 04, 2017
Ontario premier calls rent doubling 'egregious,' promises rent control 'soon'
TORONTO - Ontario’s premier says she isn’t buying an argument from the development industry that stricter rent control will do more harm than good for renters in the province. Kathleen Wyn...
Apr 04, 2017
Politicians pressed on whether government can, should step in on Bombardier pay
OTTAWA - Federal and Quebec politicians were pressed Tuesday on whether government can - or should - allow Bombardier executives to grant themselves generous raises while taxpayers are helping keep th...
Apr 04, 2017
Byelections signal generational change for both Conservatives, Liberals
OTTAWA - Monday’s byelection results mean more than just fresh faces for the House of Commons: one observer says they represent a generational shift on Parliament Hill. The five new Ottawa-bound...
Apr 04, 2017
Spectator, 12, dies after being struck by puck at northern Quebec arena
SALLUIT, Que. - A 12-year-old girl died on the weekend after being hit in the head by a puck in Salluit, in Quebec’s remote north. The Kativik regional government said in a statement the girl wa...
Apr 04, 2017
Scotiabank CEO supports free trade but wants governments to address concerns
TORONTO - Scotiabank CEO Brian Porter is calling for updates to the North American Free Trade Agreement, but he says positive dialogue about open trade is needed to combat the growing tide of protecti...
Apr 04, 2017
President of Surrey Creep Catchers says he was arrested by the RCMP
SURREY, B.C. - The president of the vigilante group Surrey Creep Catchers says he was arrested Monday night following a confrontation with a man the organization’s members accused of being a ped...
Apr 04, 2017
Company charged in English Bay fuel spill must challenge summons in B.C. court
VANCOUVER - A Federal Court judge has rejected an application for judicial review filed by a Greece-based company facing charges in a 2015 fuel spill in Vancouver’s English Bay, saying it must m...
Apr 04, 2017
Project to walk schoolkids through troubled black orphanage in virtual reality
HALIFAX - Gerry Morrison’s childhood memories of life in the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children are painful, but he has agreed to re-live them so a ground-breaking virtual-reality project can...
Apr 04, 2017
B.C. ultramarathoner finishes six seconds late of 60-hour cutoff in 160-km race
VANCOUVER - A last-minute mistake that put Gary Robbins six seconds short of becoming the 16th person to ever finish a torturous 160-kilometre ultramarathon is haunting the North Vancouver man. In a b...
Apr 04, 2017
