Category Archives: Canada
Rate hike expectations, C$ rise as Poloz reiterates cuts have done their job
OTTAWA - With the Bank of Canada nearing its next policy decision, expectations of an interest-rate hike increased Wednesday after governor Stephen Poloz reiterated that his 2015 cuts appeared to have...
Jun 28, 2017
The feuding, feral cats of HMC Dockyard - and the ex-sailor who nurtures them
HALIFAX - Pierre Filiatreault looked out his office window at Halifax’s naval base 12 years ago and saw two tiny kittens playing together in a narrow alleyway. The kittens - one with fluffy oran...
Jun 28, 2017
Pilot schooled on proper chopper use after touching down next to Tim Hortons
O’LEARY, P.E.I. - A coast guard helicopter pilot has been schooled on the appropriate use of the aircraft after touching down in a field near a Tim Hortons in P.E.I. for a coffee fix. The choppe...
Jun 28, 2017
N.S. premier encourages first Acadian lieutenant-governor to raise Acadian flag
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s new lieutenant-governor took office Wednesday, the province’s first Acadian to represent the Crown centuries after the Expulsion. Arthur LeBlanc, sworn in as the 33...
Jun 28, 2017
Peter Mansbridge promises low-key sign-off as he leaves 'The National' anchor chair
TORONTO - Peter Mansbridge doesn’t want to make a fuss about leaving the anchor’s chair at CBC’s “The National.” Nearly a year after telling viewers he planned to retire ...
Jun 28, 2017
Seven stories in the news for today, June 28
Seven stories in the news for Wednesday, June 28 --- FEDS CONFIDENT OF SOFTWOOD VICTORY New U.S. anti-dumping duties on Canadian softwood announced this week were lower than expected and that has Natu...
Jun 28, 2017
The text of the speech "A Lament for Confederation" by Chief Dan George
VANCOUVER - The text of Chief Dan George’s speech “A Lament for Confederation:” How long have I known you, Oh Canada? A hundred years? Yes, a hundred years. And many, many seelanum m...
Jun 28, 2017
Canada 150: Chief Dan George's powerful indigenous-rights speech, 50 years later
VANCOUVER - Leonard George remembers the first time he heard his father, Chief Dan George, deliver his moving and prophetic speech on indigenous rights, “A Lament for Confederation.” It wa...
Jun 28, 2017
'That stuff lives with you:' Juror advocate sympathizes with triple-murder jury
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - A female juror who was randomly dismissed in the trial of Derek Saretzky erupted in anger as she left court Wednesday, leaving her compatriots to find the 24-year-old guilty of bru...
Jun 28, 2017
Jury finds Alberta's Derek Saretzky guilty of killing father, toddler and senior
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - It took a jury just three hours Wednesday to convict a young southern Alberta man of the horrific murders of a 69-year-old woman, a young father and his two-year-old daughter, alon...
Jun 28, 2017