Category Archives: Canada
Suspect arrested after missing Japanese ESL student found dead in Vancouver
VANCOUVER - The mysterious disappearance of a Japanese woman studying English in Vancouver is now a police investigation into her death. Police announced Friday that the body of 30-year-old Natsumi Ko...
Sep 30, 2016
Shackles removed from hospitalized woman facing deportation: minister
HALIFAX - An ailing woman who is facing deportation to England has been freed from shackles that kept her restrained in her hospital bed following the intervention of two Nova Scotia cabinet ministers...
Sep 30, 2016
Two people on a plane reported missing near Yellowknife found alive: military
YELLOWKNIFE - Two people who were on board a small plane that was reported missing in the Northwest Territories have been found alive. Dave Lavallee, a Royal Canadian Air Force spokesman, said the pai...
Sep 30, 2016
Costco to add seven stores in Canada in 2017; no decision on membership fee hike
MONTREAL - Costco says it will open seven locations in Canada next year after opening its first business centre this fall. The Washington State-based big-box retailer currently operates 91 stores acro...
Sep 30, 2016
$9,700 Rona Ambrose claimed was for condo before Stornoway, Tories say
OTTAWA - Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose is denying a media report that says she claimed additional accommodation expenses while she was also living at Stornoway, the taxpayer-funded official...
Sep 30, 2016
A look at leading Rogers publications Flare, Maclean's and Chatelaine
TORONTO - Canada’s venerable fashion magazine Flare and the news weekly Maclean’s are the latest casualties of dwindling print revenues. Rogers Media says it’s ending print editions ...
Sep 30, 2016
Brock U names new interim president after woman slated for job doesn't take post
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - Ontario’s Brock University has named a new interim president a month after announcing that a woman who was to become the school’s first female president would not be...
Sep 30, 2016
University of New Brunswick adjourns appeal in women's hockey case
FREDERICTON - The University of New Brunswick is pausing the court battle against a ruling that ordered it to reinstate its women’s varsity hockey team. The ruling, by the Labour and Employment ...
Sep 30, 2016
Liberals call Commons debate, vote on ratifying Paris climate commitments
OTTAWA - The Liberal government will hold a debate and a vote in the House of Commons next week on whether Canada should ratify the international Paris climate accord. The debate by MPs is to begin Mo...
Sep 30, 2016
Federal books $8B lower over first four months compared with a year ago
OTTAWA - New numbers released Friday show the federal government ran a deficit of $2.8 billion over the first four months of 2016-17 - dropping Ottawa’s fiscal position $8 billion lower than it ...
Sep 30, 2016
