Category Archives: Canada
Taxes, fees and bankruptcies up as Newfoundland and Labrador budget reverberates
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador is now leading all provinces for inflation - but critics say the full impact of its tax-hiking spring budget still hasn’t kicked in. The latest...
Aug 23, 2016
Sobeys likely to withdraw appeal of discrimination decision, facing boycott
HALIFAX - One of Canada’s largest grocery store chains says it intends to withdraw an appeal of a human rights decision that found a Sobeys employee discriminated against a black customer - but ...
Aug 23, 2016
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall shuffles cabinet as promised after election
REGINA - Six ministers have changed portfolios and four new faces have been added in a major cabinet shuffle Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall promised after last spring’s election. Some high-profi...
Aug 23, 2016
Union says layoffs at Manitoba paper mill Tolko 'deer-in-headlights stuff'
THE PAS, Man. - A spokesman for Canada’s largest private-sector union says word that a big northern Manitoba forest products plant is shutting down has left staff at the mill stunned and feeling...
Aug 23, 2016
Ashley Madison had inadequate security safeguards, privacy officials say
Ashley Madison marketed itself as a discreet and secure service, but the site for married people seeking affairs had inadequate security safeguards and policies when it was targeted by hackers, privac...
Aug 23, 2016
Evacuation remains in effect around Bear Creek wildfire near West Kelowna, B.C.
WEST KELOWNA, B.C. - Visitors forced to flee from a campsite in B.C.’s Okanagan Valley ahead of a raging wildfire on Sunday night will have a chance to retrieve abandoned items. The Central Okan...
Aug 23, 2016
Federal, provincial Liberals signing $1.49-billion transit funding agreement
OTTAWA - The federal treasury is doling out $1.49 billion worth of transit funding among cities in Ontario for track upgrades, new buses and improvements and accessibility upgrades to stations, the pr...
Aug 23, 2016
B.C. study says rats remain slackers even when given medicinal part of marijuana
VANCOUVER - Apparent laziness caused by the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana persists even when the same amount of pot’s medicinal component is added, a new study suggests. Lead author ...
Aug 23, 2016
Peter Doig 'absolutely did not paint' Canadian-owned work, judge rules
A painting at the centre of a strange multimillion-dollar civil lawsuit filed by a former Canadian correctional officer who owns the canvas was not the work of famed artist Peter Doig, a Chicago judge...
Aug 23, 2016
Family of toddler withdraws sexual assault complaint
Halifax police say the family of a toddler who was the victim of an alleged sexual assault is withdrawing their complaint. Spokeswoman Const. Dianne Woodworth said the department respects their decisi...
Aug 23, 2016
