Category Archives: Canada
Canadian envoy fires back at Trump over dairy, says criticism not based on facts
OTTAWA - Canada’s envoy to Washington has shot back at criticism by President Donald Trump and U.S. milk producers, saying the facts don’t support a charge that the Canadian dairy industry...
Apr 18, 2017
Trial hears woman's body buried in home mummified in mixture of cat litter, salt
CALGARY - The Crown says a man accused of killing his wife confessed to undercover officers that he strangled her and buried her body in the basement of the home they shared with their two children. T...
Apr 18, 2017
Not guilty pleas entered for two accused men in B.C. polygamy trial
CRANBROOK, B.C. - The leader of a fundamentalist sect that condones plural marriage stood silently in a British Columbia courtroom Tuesday, hands clasped in front of a pressed black suit, as a B.C. Su...
Apr 18, 2017
New Brunswick First Nations set to banish drug dealers following overdose death
FREDERICTON - There is a growing movement on New Brunswick’s First Nations to banish drug dealers, as mourners said farewell this week to a woman who died of a drug overdose. Leo Bartibogue, an ...
Apr 18, 2017
Fraud trial underway for former director of Quebec provincial police
MONTREAL - A fraud trial is underway in Montreal for the ex-director of the Quebec provincial police and two other former senior officers. The three are charged with fraud, theft and breach of trust. ...
Apr 18, 2017
Bank of Canada warns workforce automation could intensify income inequality
OTTAWA - A senior Bank of Canada official says while the country’s poised to reap economic benefits from technological progress - it must also brace for potentially painful side effects like job...
Apr 18, 2017
NAFTA panel says U.S. must reconsider duties against Canadian paper mills
HALIFAX - A NAFTA review panel has unanimously ordered the U.S. Department of Commerce to reconsider its costly duties against Canadian mills that produce glossy paper. The panel, comprised of three A...
Apr 18, 2017
Transcontinental puts newspapers in Quebec and Ontario up for sale
MONTREAL - Transcontinental has put its 93 newspapers in Quebec and Ontario up for sale, days after unloading its publications in Atlantic Canada, but its CEO says he doesn’t expect all of them ...
Apr 18, 2017
Ontario university students to disarm fake bomb as part of final exam
TORONTO - Some Ontario university students are set for a stressful final examination: disarming fake bombs with robots they’ve designed. Ryerson University says computer science students will na...
Apr 18, 2017
Prince Charles, Camilla to visit in time for Canada 150 celebration
OTTAWA - Prince Charles and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, will visit Canada this summer to participate in the celebrations marking the country’s 150th birthday. Gov. Gen. David John...
Apr 18, 2017