Category Archives: Canada
Bombardier and Trudeau say they're close to hammering out a funding deal
MONTREAL - Bombardier says it’s close to hammering out a financing deal with the federal government even as the transportation giant forecasts strong earnings growth in next year and enough cash...
Dec 15, 2016
CREA raises forecast for 2016 home sales, expects fewer sales in 2017
TORONTO - The Canadian Real Estate Association is predicting home sales will dip by about 3.3 per cent next year as deteriorating affordability, a shortage of supply and new mortgage rules slow the re...
Dec 15, 2016
Decades of lobbying finally move feds to comprehensive ban on asbestos by 2018
OTTAWA - Michelle Cote says her father didn’t want to see anyone else have their life choked from them the way he did before succumbing to asbestos-related disease last July. Cote added a human ...
Dec 15, 2016
A Trump bump? American refugee claims in Canada increased last month
WASHINGTON - The number of Americans seeking refugee status in Canada has experienced a significant bump this year, increasing more than five times in November 2016 from the same period a year earlier...
Dec 15, 2016
Nova Scotia surplus tightens to $12.1 million on shrinking revenues
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s finance minister says the provincial surplus is shrinking, and there simply isn’t room to sweeten salary offers to the province’s unhappy teachers and civil s...
Dec 15, 2016
Miss Canada speaks out on China human rights
WASHINGTON - Poised but defiant, Miss Canada will be vying for more than the winner’s tiara when she competes in the annual Miss World pageant in Washington this weekend. Anastasia Lin wants to ...
Dec 15, 2016
Trudeau details Ottawa's 'two tracks' towards resetting indigenous relationship
Ottawa must follow two separate tracks in its reconciliation efforts with indigenous people, says Prime Minister Justin Trudeau: taking broader, long-term steps to rebuild the relationship, while also...
Dec 15, 2016
Operation Picnic was secret phone-tapping feast for RCMP, historian discovers
OTTAWA - The federal government secretly gave RCMP security officials the authority to tap telephone calls without court oversight during the Cold War, newly unearthed archival documents show. The sur...
Dec 15, 2016
Five stories in the news today, Dec. 15
Five stories in the news for Thursday, Dec. 15 --- PM TRUDEAU TO MEET INDIGENOUS LEADERS Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is scheduled to sit down with indigenous leaders today, the one-year anniversary ...
Dec 15, 2016
Labour board raises concerns as Liberals drag heels on appointments
OTTAWA - The federal board that resolves thorny labour disputes says its work is being compromised because it is short-handed, despite having warned the Liberals more than a year ago about the urgent ...
Dec 15, 2016