Category Archives: Canada
Temporary foreign workers hold protest in Montreal
MONTREAL - A group of temporary foreign workers and their supporters are protesting what they say is rampant abuse of the rights of agricultural workers. About two dozens workers and activists gathere...
Jul 23, 2017
Hamilton Fringe Festival posters with feminist and LGBT themes defaced
HAMILTON - Posters advertising Hamilton Fringe Festival shows with LGBTQ and feminist themes have been defaced with Bible verses condemning homosexuality and female independence. On Saturday afternoon...
Jul 23, 2017
Sears Canada faces online calls for boycott over treatment of ex-employees
Sears Canada is facing a social media campaign calling for a boycott after the company said it planned to pay millions in bonuses to keep executives on board during restructuring, while not offering s...
Jul 23, 2017
Destruction of small wetlands leads to more algal blooms, Ontario study finds
A new study suggests that small wetlands play a bigger role in filtering out pollutants and preventing algal blooms in the Great Lakes than their larger counterparts. Wetlands - which include marshes,...
Jul 23, 2017
Penguins' Letang brings Stanley Cup to visit kids in Montreal hospital
MONTREAL - A young boy toddled over to the Stanley Cup, pausing just a moment before depositing a toy airplane into the bowl of the famous trophy. Moments later in another room of the same Montreal ho...
Jul 23, 2017
Ontario announces new mental health workers for troubled Pikangikum First Nation
OTTAWA - Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins is announcing funding for 20 full-time mental health workers for Pikangikum First Nation - a remote community struggling with a suicide crisis and pressin...
Jul 23, 2017
Nova Scotia town fights to save local armoury in possible sign of things to come
OTTAWA - An emotional fight over an armoury in rural Nova Scotia could be a precursor of things to come for other small towns as the military moves to get rid of hundreds of buildings across the count...
Jul 23, 2017
Taxes, census, treaties described as obligations of citizenship in new guide
OTTAWA - Respecting treaties with Indigenous Peoples, paying taxes and filling out the census are listed as mandatory obligations of Canadian citizenship in a draft version of a new study guide for th...
Jul 23, 2017
B.C. judge to deliver verdict for two men in polygamy case dating back to 1990s
CRANBROOK, B.C. - A verdict is expected Monday in a trial of two former leaders of a British Columbia fundamentalist church who are charged with polygamy. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Sheri Ann Donegan ...
Jul 23, 2017
Winds create concerns as some B.C. wildfire evacuees return home
KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Residents of two communities evacuated due to wildfires in British Columbia have been allowed to return, but officials say it’s unclear when thousands of others will be allowed ...
Jul 23, 2017