Category Archives: Canada
Carbon price won't be deciding factor for oilsands development: report
CALGARY - Alberta’s incoming carbon taxes will have a minimal effect on new oilsands development compared with oil prices and market access, says a new report. TD Bank economist Dina Ignjatovic ...
Nov 22, 2016
Ottawa places three-gram daily limit on medical pot it covers for veterans
VANCOUVER - The federal government is drastically cutting the amount of medical cannabis for which veterans will be reimbursed after years of skyrocketing costs and concerns about overuse. The announc...
Nov 22, 2016
Defence lawyers say closure of sex-offender program puts public at risk
CALGARY - Criminal trial lawyers in Alberta are worried the public could be at risk if a treatment program for sex offenders is shut down. The Criminal Trial Lawyers Association in Edmonton and the Cr...
Nov 22, 2016
Historic first as N.S. tames Fundy's tides, feeds power to electrical grid
PARRSBORO, N.S. - The currents that propel the tides of the Bay of Fundy are so strong they have largely thwarted hundreds of years of work aimed at harnessing their awesome power. But as politicians ...
Nov 22, 2016
Canadian retail sector employment to hit 12-year low this year, report says
MONTREAL - Employment in Canada’s retail sector will hit a 12-year low this year as companies adopt technology and trim costs in response to weak growth in consumer spending, says a new report r...
Nov 22, 2016
Saskatchewan deficit balloons to $1 billion with falling resource, tax revenue
REGINA - The Saskatchewan government is cutting spending and has imposed a hiring freeze as it wrestles with a ballooning deficit of about $1 billion. Finance Minister Kevin Doherty released a fiscal ...
Nov 22, 2016
Dash cam captures aggressive driver's near-miss: 'He nearly killed us both'
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A Newfoundland man is sharing a dramatic video showing how he narrowly avoided a head-on collision with another vehicle, in hopes of shaming the driver he says nearly killed h...
Nov 22, 2016
Millard's ex-girlfriend pleads guilty to obstructing justice in Tim Bosma murder
The former girlfriend of a man convicted of killing Hamilton resident Tim Bosma pleaded guilty on Tuesday to obstructing justice in the case. Christina Noudga was set to stand trial on the charge of a...
Nov 22, 2016
Anti-trade, nativist sentiment a threat to world and Canada: minister
OTTAWA - A day after controversial U.S. president-elect Donald Trump took to social media to denounce a massive Pacific Rim trade deal, Canada’s own trade minister decried the rise of “ugl...
Nov 22, 2016
Man sentenced to a decade in jail for role in mass killing plot at Halifax mall
HALIFAX - A young Halifax man has been sentenced to a decade in jail for a plot that envisioned using rifles and gas bombs to kill unsuspecting shoppers at a mall food court. Randall Steven Shepherd, ...
Nov 22, 2016
