Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - A survey conducted for CIBC suggests many Canadians plan to spend an average of nearly $600 on this year’s holiday shopping. That’s eight per cent less than last year, yet the re...

Five stories in the news for Friday, Dec. 16 --- FATHER, FOUR CHILDREN BELIEVED DEAD IN ONTARIO HOUSE FIRE Efforts will continue today to recover and identify the victims of a house fire on a First Na...

RICHMOND, B.C. - British Columbia’s worker-safety agency says more employers are replacing the beep-beep-beep back-up alarm on vehicles with white noise for safety’s sake. WorkSafeBC says ...

CHILLIWACK, B.C. - A British Columbia man targeted by the vigilante group Creep Catchers has been sentenced to prison. Sixty-seven-year-old Don Putt was sentenced to six months, but with credit for ti...

PORT COLBORNE, Ont. - Emergency crews investigating a deadly house fire that killed a mother, her two children and her grandmother in southern Ontario have found a body in the charred rubble. Niagara ...

SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of - North Korea’s state media says Canadian officials have met with a detained Ontario pastor who has been sentenced to life in prison in the country. Hyeon Soo Lim, a pa...

OTTAWA - The federal government says it will ban all products containing asbestos by 2018. Here’s a timeline of the history of asbestos in Canada. 1876: Large deposits of asbestos are discovered...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Dec. 15 --- FEDS BAN ASBESTOS IN CANADA: The federal government is banning the use of asbestos in products. It says it’s moving to phase out the manuf...

A father and four children are believed to have been killed in a house fire on the Oneida Nation of the Thames First Nation near London, Ont. Here are some other fatal fires that have taken place in F...

TORONTO - The Bank of Montreal has agreed to compensate clients a total of $49.9 million after collecting excess fees on certain mutual funds and investment products over eight years. The bank (TSX:BM...