Category Archives: Canada
B.C.'s proposed foreigner tax to help fund Metro Vancouver housing projects
VICTORIA - While buyers and sellers rush to avoid paying a new 15-per-cent property transfer tax in British Columbia, Premier Christy Clark’s Liberal government apparently can’t wait to st...
Jul 28, 2016
Halifax police add two cases to list of sexual assaults inside taxis
HALIFAX - Police in Halifax have released updated information about a string of alleged sexual assaults by cab drivers, adding two incidents to the list. Earlier this week, police said 12 remarkably s...
Jul 28, 2016
Government unable to reach Canadians detained in connection with Turkish coup
OTTAWA - Government efforts to reach two Turkish Canadians arrested in connection with a failed coup in Turkey earlier this month have so far been stymied. Davud Hanci and Ilhan Erdem were arrested an...
Jul 28, 2016
Ottawa to change Indian Act in response to Descheneaux ruling by February
OTTAWA - The Liberal government plans to rid the Indian Act of rules that discriminate based on sex. The move is partly in response to a Quebec Superior Court decision last August that ruled certain s...
Jul 28, 2016
'This election's important to me': Grumbling about protesters at Dem convention
PHILADELPHIA - Claire Merced couldn’t believe people walked out on the Democratic convention. Really. The California convention-goer assumed the media had made up or exaggerated the stories abou...
Jul 28, 2016
Manitoba premier suggests Churchill port owners wanted government bailout
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister hinted strongly Thursday that the Port of Churchill - the largest employer in the subarctic town of 800 - has been shut down because its owners, Omnitrax, w...
Jul 28, 2016
Sudden moth swarm bedevils New Brunswick towns: 'People ran out in a panic'
DALHOUSIE, N.B. - A sudden infestation of spruce budworm moths swarmed northern New Brunswick last weekend, leaving people in Campbellton and Dalhousie with stories to tell - and a mess to clean up. S...
Jul 28, 2016
Federal prison death details so sparse that family grief deepens: study
HALIFAX - Families with relatives who die in federal jails aren’t consistently getting the full story of what happened, sometimes waiting for a year or more for heavily censored investigation re...
Jul 28, 2016
Suncor proposes leaving oilsands in ground to cut GHG emission intensity
CALGARY - A proposal by oilsands giant Suncor Energy to leave some of its more difficult-to-produce reserves in the ground, to reduce emissions and costs, is being endorsed by environmentalists - but ...
Jul 28, 2016
Husky Energy changes day it discovered oil pipeline spill in Saskatchewan
Husky Energy has changed details about when it discovered its oil pipeline spill into the North Saskatchewan River. Earlier this week, the company filed a report that said it found the leak of up to 2...
Jul 28, 2016
