Category Archives: Canada
Ontario police probe several incidents involving trick or treaters on Halloween
A number of police forces across Ontario are investigating incidents which dampened the fun for certain trick or treaters on Halloween. Police laid charges against one man for allegedly throwing firec...
Nov 01, 2016
Canadians door knock in U.S., but outsiders barred from stumping in Canada
TORONTO - A group of Canadian lawyers is heading south this week to stump for Hillary Clinton ahead of the U.S. presidential election - an activity that would be illegal if Americans tried the same mo...
Nov 01, 2016
More than $1.5B in Canadian auto investments will reverse fortunes, Unifor says
TORONTO - The three big North American automakers have committed to investing more than $1.5 billion in their Canadian operations as a result of contract talks with their unionized workers, a move tha...
Nov 01, 2016

Trinity Western wins legal victory in fight to open Christian law school
VANCOUVER - A decisive legal victory in British Columbia has put an evangelical Christian university one step closer in its bid to secure recognition for its proposed law school. The Appeal Court of B...
Nov 01, 2016
Police say economic downturn tied to increasing domestic abuse in Calgary
CALGARY - Police say domestic violence in Calgary is on the rise at least partially as a result of a severe economic downturn that has cost thousands of jobs in the oil and gas industry. Figures relea...
Nov 01, 2016
LGBTQ 'purged' from military, public service jobs file class-action lawsuits
OTTAWA - Todd Ross, 47, came out as gay to a stranger. It was no ordinary stranger, either, but a military interrogator grilling him about his sexual orientation, with Ross strapped to a polygraph mac...
Nov 01, 2016
Housing and debt risks best addressed by government; rates blunt tool: Poloz
VANCOUVER - Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz says risks from household debt and the housing market will be better addressed by the government’s recent policy moves, not by adjusting interes...
Nov 01, 2016

Jacques Corriveau found guilty on three fraud-related charges
MONTREAL - More than 10 years after being described as the “central figure” in an elaborate and lucrative sponsorship kickback scheme, a man once close to ex-prime minister Jean Chretien w...
Nov 01, 2016

Officer pleads guilty over online remarks following death of indigenous artist
OTTAWA - An Ottawa police officer apologized to his family, the force and the Inuit community on Tuesday after pleading guilty to two Police Services Act charges in connection with online remarks he m...
Nov 01, 2016

Pressure mounts on federal Liberals to invest in First Nations child welfare
OTTAWA - An indigenous member of Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s economic advisory council is taking issue with the federal government’s claims that First Nations agencies lack the capacit...
Nov 01, 2016