Category Archives: Canada
Ministers questions Nova Scotia teachers' training trips during work-to-rule
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s education minister is wondering why teachers have continued to travel to professional development conferences despite their work-to-rule job action. Karen Casey was react...
Jan 12, 2017
New Brunswick woman charged after alleged drunk driver hits police cruiser
SHEDIAC, N.B. - An alleged drunk driver hit the wrong car Wednesday night: a police cruiser. New Brunswick RCMP say an officer investigating a complaint about a possible impaired driver saw a car mish...
Jan 12, 2017
Bankruptcy court approves Gildan's US$88-million purchase of American Apparel
MONTREAL - Gildan Activewear’s US$88-million purchase of California-based clothing company American Apparel was approved Thursday by a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge. The Montreal-based company won...
Jan 12, 2017
37 kilos of cocaine seized in fruit truck at Windsor, Ont.; driver charged
WINDSOR, Ont. - The RCMP have charged a Toronto-area man following the seizure of 37 kilograms of cocaine at the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ont. The Canada Border Services Agency and the Mounties a...
Jan 12, 2017
McDonald's Canada testing all-day breakfast menu in select provinces
TORONTO - McDonald’s has begun serving its famed Egg McMuffins, hash browns and other breakfast menu items around the clock in some restaurants in Canada. The fast-food giant has launched all-da...
Jan 12, 2017
B.C., Yukon spent more than $1M on royal tour; overall cost likely more than $3M
VICTORIA - British Columbia and Yukon spent more than $1 million on the royal tour last fall of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and their two young children. The Canadian government has yet to annou...
Jan 12, 2017
Police-check numbers have 'startled' Nova Scotians, premier says
HALIFAX - By his count, Carlos Beals estimates he’s been stopped by police at least a dozen times, always walking away without an arrest and for reasons that to him seemed flimsy at best. But Be...
Jan 12, 2017
Alberta's caribou maternity ward plan attacked in science journal
EDMONTON - Alberta’s plan to restore a dwindling caribou herd by penning off a large tract of forest for pregnant cows would only produce “naive” calves that wouldn’t survive o...
Jan 12, 2017
More immigrants coming to Atlantic Canada, but retention rates low: report
HALIFAX - More people are immigrating to Atlantic Canada than ever before, but many do not stay, a new report says. The Atlantic Provinces Economic Council report released Thursday said a record 8,300...
Jan 12, 2017
Family of Calgary couple and their five-year-old grandson still feeling pain
CALGARY - Family members of a couple and their grandson who disappeared two years ago say they are bracing themselves as a suspect’s murder trial is set to begin. Douglas Garland, 56, was arrest...
Jan 12, 2017