Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - A cab driver who was acquitted of sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman in the back of his taxi no longer has a licence to drive a cab in the Halifax area. Bassam Al-Rawi’s taxi dri...

WINNIPEG - The federal government is offering up to $375,000 for a new program to reduce deaths and injuries related to grain-handling. The money is to go toward training for producers and first respo...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government has taken the next step towards buying 18 Super Hornet fighter jets on an interim basis, a purchase it hopes to make official by year’s end. The government sent a...

OTTAWA - Expectations are running high that next week’s federal budget will provide a more detailed federal strategy - and perhaps more cash - to help post-secondary students land real-life work...

The federal government has released a recovery plan for an endangered population of killer whales likely to be in the path of increased oil tanker traffic off British Columbia’s southern coast. ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...