Category Archives: Canada
Wall criticizes attempt to link carbon policy with provincial transfer payments
REGINA - Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall says any attempt by Ottawa to link transfer money with a province’s carbon tax policy would be a serious attack on federal-provincial relations. Wall says...
May 08, 2017
Man pleads not guilty to killing three people, including father and toddler
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - A man accused in the deaths of three people in southwestern Alberta, including a two-year-old girl and her father, has pleaded not guilty. Derek Saretzky, 24, was formally arraigne...
May 08, 2017
Couple charged with murder after toddler found near church have cases put over
EDMONTON - A couple charged with murder after a toddler was found dead outside an Edmonton church have had their cases put over. The body of 19-month-old Anthony Raine was discovered on April 21 outsi...
May 08, 2017
Ten things to know about the British Columbia election
VANCOUVER - Voters in British Columbia go to the polls on Tuesday. Here are 10 things to know about B.C. politics: - The Liberals have been in power since 2001, but Christy Clark didn’t become p...
May 08, 2017
Quebec pension fund and union fund won't support Bombardier chairman
MONTREAL - Two of Quebec’s largest institutional investors say they won’t support the re-election of Bombardier executive chairman Pierre Beaudoin, dealing a fresh blow against the manufac...
May 08, 2017
Leaders press for votes on last day before British Columbia election
VANCOUVER - In the final days of British Columbia’s election campaign, Green Leader Andrew Weaver’s supporters have become a hot commodity as the New Democrats try to persuade voters they ...
May 08, 2017
Nova Scotia investment scam mastermind ordered to pay victims $1.1 million
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia financial manager behind an investment scam “paid a hard price for his greed,” a judge said as she ordered him to pay back about 200 investors he bilked out of $1...
May 08, 2017
White House spokesman: No, there's not going to be a trade war with Canada
WASHINGTON - The White House is downplaying talk of a U.S. trade war with Canada, with President Donald Trump’s spokesman brushing off the notion when asked about it Monday. ”No,” Se...
May 08, 2017
Man who sent intimate phone photo to woman's son has 3-year jail term upheld
TORONTO - A man who secretly downloaded intimate pictures from a woman’s cellphone, threatened to pass them around, and sent one of the images to her son had his three-year prison term upheld on...
May 08, 2017
Uber setting up Canadian driverless-car lab headed by Toronto AI expert
TORONTO - Uber has hailed a prominent artificial-intelligence academic to lead a driverless-car project in Toronto - the ride-hailing company’s first such research hub outside the United States,...
May 08, 2017