Category Archives: Canada
Nanaimo city council investigation prompts appointment of special prosecutor
VICTORIA - A special prosecutor has been appointed to help police in British Columbia investigate a Nanaimo city council member who the province’s Criminal Justice Branch says was arrested for a...
Mar 31, 2017
The Friday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Friday, March 31 --- MCDONALD’S CANADA WEBSITE HACKED: McDonald’s Canadian subsidiary says hackers breached the job section of its website, compromising t...
Mar 31, 2017
Alberta man surrenders over 100 dogs to SPCA after they were seized from home
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - A man who had 101 dogs seized from his house in southern Alberta has voluntarily surrendered the animals to the Alberta SPCA. Roland Lines of the Alberta SPCA says they went to the...
Mar 31, 2017
Transit, Trump and corporate subsidies: how politics touched Canadians this week
OTTAWA - Talk of pending pot legislation and Conservative membership drives consumed Parliament Hill conversation this week, filling the void left by MPs who returned to their ridings to discuss the p...
Mar 31, 2017
Health officials in Ontario trying to track down measles outbreak
Toronto Public Health officials say the risk is low, but they are warning people who flew on a number of flights recently that they may have been exposed to the measles. The agency has issued a news r...
Mar 31, 2017
B.C. auditor says tougher guidelines required to monitor government advertising
VICTORIA - British Columbia’s auditor general says political partisanship appears to have crept into taxpayer-funded government advertising, prompting her call Friday for tougher monitoring guid...
Mar 31, 2017
Canadian man loses family members to conflict in Libya, says Ottawa could have done more
TORONTO - A Canadian man who tried to organize an aid shipment to relatives stranded in a conflict-ridden area of Libya says he recently found out most of his family members had died during his fruitl...
Mar 31, 2017
Nova Scotia increases gender, diversity balance on bench with four appointments
HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government has appointed two black lawyers, an openly gay lawyer and a female Crown attorney as judges, bringing its provincial and family courts closer to gender and diversi...
Mar 31, 2017
Bombardier chairman wants his pay brought back to 2015 levels
MONTREAL - A public uproar over a hefty increase in compensation to senior executives at Bombardier prompted the company’s chairman to ask his board of directors late Friday to scale back his pa...
Mar 31, 2017
BlackBerry eyes wearables, tablet, appliances in software licensing expansion
WATERLOO, Ont. - BlackBerry’s logo may soon appear on more than just smartphones as CEO John Chen says the company is expanding its software licensing business. The former smartphone leader said...
Mar 31, 2017