Category Archives: Canada
Jobs, affordability remain big issues as B.C. election campaign in home stretch
VANCOUVER - Tuesday marks the end of a bitterly fought election campaign in British Columbia, leaving voters to decide whether the Liberals’ jobs-centred pitch is enough to clinch a fifth consec...
May 07, 2017
Mandatory minimum changes one part of planned overhaul of justice system
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is set to begin tackling mandatory minimum sentences this spring, but advocates for reform have been waiting a long time for the promise to play out. “It’s ...
May 07, 2017
A look at the federal Conservative leadership race, by the numbers
OTTAWA - A look at the federal Conservative leadership race, by the numbers. 445: Days in the leadership contest. 16: Number of people who officially entered. 3: Number who dropped out: Dan Lindsay, T...
May 07, 2017
Five things to know about how the Conservatives will choose a new leader
OTTAWA - Conservative party members are in the process of selecting a new leader, with the winner to be announced on May 27. Here’s five things to know about how the vote works. 1) There are 14 ...
May 07, 2017
Conservative party politics getting in way of debate on environment: Chong
OTTAWA - Conservative leadership candidate Michael Chong knew a promise to bring in a revenue-neutral carbon tax, if elected, would be a tough sell. But what he didn’t expect was that his own pa...
May 07, 2017
CSIS suspected Soviet spies of pinching King diary full of atomic secrets
OTTAWA - Canada’s spy agency surmised that Soviet agents stole a key volume of William Lyon Mackenzie King’s fabled diary - a theory dissected in a new book about the intrigue surrounding ...
May 07, 2017
Franklin researchers hope to link DNA from sailors' bones with descendants
Researchers who have completed the first genetic analysis on the bones from the crew of the doomed Franklin expedition in Canada’s Arctic say they’re hoping to meet living descendants to m...
May 07, 2017
Canadian senior with home in Florida barred from U.S. over voter-registration form
TORONTO - A Canadian retiree says he’s been left with no choice other than to sell his house in Florida after being banned from the United States for what he believes was a long-buried bureaucra...
May 07, 2017
Tim Hortons CEO brushes aside skepticism of ambitious U.K. expansion plans
TORONTO - The CEO of the parent company of Tim Hortons is brushing off skepticism that the British will embrace its double-doubles and Timbits as it readies to open its first location in the United Ki...
May 07, 2017
Take a tin or leave toilet paper at community cupboard in Winnipeg
WINNIPEG - A couple who’ve opened a community pantry outside their home in a poor Winnipeg neighbourhood say they could have started a community library, but the neighbours who knock on their do...
May 07, 2017