Category Archives: Canada
Canadian sex-toy maker settles US intimate data lawsuit for $5 million
A Canadian vibrator maker accused of secretly tracking the intimate habits of thousands of its customers through a smartphone app has agreed to spend $5 million to settle a privacy lawsuit in the Unit...
Mar 14, 2017
Class-action lawsuit launched
against Canopy Growth over pesticide in marijuana
HALIFAX - A Halifax-based law firm has launched a class-action lawsuit against Canopy Growth (TSX:WEED) and its subsidiary Mettrum over recalls of medical marijuana that contained unauthorized pestici...
Mar 14, 2017

Ontario, Quebec more vulnerable to softwood duties this time: industry observers
MONTREAL - Canada’s lumber industry is in a stronger position to weather a U.S. trade battle than it was during the last major clash a decade ago, but smaller Quebec and Ontario producers would ...
Mar 14, 2017
Witness says Charest would stop coaching her if she refused his sexual advances
SAINT-JEROME, Que. - During a two-month European ski trip in 1996, one of Bertrand Charest’s ski students built an igloo out of snow outside the chalet in order to escape from him, she told his ...
Mar 14, 2017
Poppy crosswalk to honour veterans in Vernon, B.C., rejected by legion
VERNON, B.C. - Vernon Mayor Akbal Mund says the city is working on a new plan to honour veterans after the Royal Canadian Legion rejected a proposed poppy crosswalk. The British Columbia city likened ...
Mar 14, 2017

Home prices post record February increase: Teranet-National Bank index
TORONTO - Canadian home prices posted a record jump for the month of February, fuelled by the Toronto, Hamilton and Vancouver markets. The Teranet-National Bank national composite house price index ga...
Mar 14, 2017

Winter storm settles into southern Ontario, stretches from Windsor to Quebec
TORONTO - The merging of two major weather systems will leave a huge stretch of central Canada blanketed in snow, Environment Canada said Tuesday. Meteorologist Mark Schuster said a system that was or...
Mar 14, 2017

Proposed spaceport would bring defunct N.S. town back to the cutting edge
CANSO, N.S. - It’s a 400-year-old Nova Scotia fishing village struggling to stay afloat - times have been so tough the town was dissolved five years ago. Now, tiny Canso is being touted as the f...
Mar 14, 2017

Body of SAR Tech killed in training exercise returned to Winnipeg
WINNIPEG - The body of a Royal Canadian Air Force search and rescue technician who died during a training exercise near Yorkton, Sask., last week has been returned to Winnipeg. Master Cpl. Alfred Barr...
Mar 14, 2017
Six stories in the news today, March 14
Six stories in the news for Tuesday, March 14: --- NIGEL WRIGHT STILL SUBJECT OF ETHICS PROBE Almost a full year after Sen. Mike Duffy was acquitted on 31 charges of fraud, bribery and breach of trust...
Mar 14, 2017