Category Archives: Canada
Feds applaud plan to cool Toronto housing market; won't make it national policy
WASHINGTON - The federal government welcomes Ontario’s move to tax foreign home buyers in and around Toronto, but says it won’t be replicated on a national level because it’s unneces...
Apr 21, 2017
QuickList: March inflation rate for selected Canadian cities
OTTAWA - Canada’s national annual inflation rate was 1.6 per cent in March, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctuate...
Apr 21, 2017
QuickList: March inflation rates for Canadian provinces, territories
OTTAWA - Canada’s national annual inflation rate was 1.6 per cent in March, Statistics Canada says. Here’s what happened in the provinces and territories (previous month in brackets): - Ne...
Apr 21, 2017
Inflation surprisingly soft as cheaper food offsets higher gas prices
OTTAWA - The country’s annual inflation rate slowed to an unexpectedly weak pace last month as the continued decline in food prices played a big role in offsetting the higher cost of gasoline, S...
Apr 21, 2017
Dreaming of other worlds? Company offers to launch customers' DNA into space
MONTREAL - When Sarah Jane Green was a little girl, her father passed on his love of space and universe to her, even naming her after a character in the “Doctor Who” TV show. So after he d...
Apr 21, 2017
Newfoundland fisherman continues hunger strike protest after call from minister
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Richard Gillett is weak now and growing weaker by the hour. The once burly fisherman from Twillingate, N.L., known for his three seasons on the reality TV show “Cold Wat...
Apr 21, 2017
New Brunswick pay-for-plasma clinic set to recruit donors for inspection period
FREDERICTON - A controversial company that pays people for their blood plasma is set to begin recruiting donors for a just-built New Brunswick facility. Canadian Plasma Resources CEO Barzin Bahardoust...
Apr 21, 2017
Seven stories in the news today, April 21
Seven stories in the news for Friday, April 21 --- WATCHDOG TROUBLED BY CSIS USE OF PERSONAL INFO A data centre run by Canada’s spy agency has long been using personal details gleaned from secur...
Apr 21, 2017
CSIS spy centre's use of security assessment info troubles privacy czar: letters
OTTAWA - The controversial data-crunching centre run by Canada’s spy agency has long been using personal details gleaned from security clearance forms to help with national security probes - a p...
Apr 21, 2017
B.C. Liberal Leader Christy Clark says U.S. "greed" driving softwood spat
WILLIAMS LAKE, B.C. - Greedy “lumber barons” in the United States are to blame for the softwood lumber dispute, and their push to choke off the supply of disputed Canadian timber will only...
Apr 21, 2017