Category Archives: Canada
Ottawa to announce crackdown on boats abandoned on Canadian coasts
HALIFAX - Sunken sailboats, derelict ships and rusted out bulk carriers: The abandoned stuff of Maritime pursuits left to sully the country’s coastline seem as inescapably tied to our oceans as ...
May 23, 2017
Petition to ban caleches in Quebec City has more than 34,000 signatures
QUEBEC - A petition to ban caleches in Quebec City has more than 34,000 signatures after two incidents involving horses on the weekend. Local police say the first occurred when a horse suddenly took o...
May 23, 2017
Supreme Court urged to clarify law on journalist source protection
TORONTO - Protection for a journalist’s sources currently exists in legal void that needs filling given the importance of media to our democracy, a new application to the Supreme Court of Canada...
May 23, 2017
Quebec byelection poster denouncing Canadian multiculturalism upsets some people
MONTREAL - A candidate in a Quebec provincial byelection has triggered controversy with a campaign poster that criticizes Canadian multiculturalism and shows a photo of a woman wearing a niqab. Alexan...
May 23, 2017
Are 30-somethings earning more than their parents? StatCan study says yes
OTTAWA - A new study from Statistics Canada appears to suggest that 30- and 40-something Canadians are more likely to live the American dream of earning more than their parents than their counterparts...
May 23, 2017
Concert security in focus after Manchester bombing
TORONTO - Avid concertgoer Mark Churaman can’t shake the disturbing images of the suicide bombing that tore through the Manchester Arena on Monday night. He was at the venue himself a few years ...
May 23, 2017
Kids of anti-vaccination parents stigmatized more than their parents: study
VANCOUVER - Children who aren’t vaccinated face harsher judgment than their parents who refused immunization, says a study examining attitudes involving a contentious public health issue for whi...
May 23, 2017
Newfoundland and Labrador join 10-digit club ahead of new telephone area code
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - One of Canada’s last bastions of local seven-digit dialing will soon be no more. People in Newfoundland and Labrador were told Tuesday that local 10-digit dialing - incl...
May 23, 2017
Extra work and time leads to jump in Canada Summer Jobs funding requests
OTTAWA - Almost 42,000 businesses have applied to hire a student through the Canada Summer Jobs program, surpassing the number of applications last year, the federal government says. The number of app...
May 23, 2017
Lobster fraud: Three facing charges in complex, $3-million international case
BARRINGTON, N.S. - More than $3 million worth of lobster is at the centre of a complex, international case involving fraud and theft allegations against three men from southwestern Nova Scotia, RCMP s...
May 23, 2017