Category Archives: Canada
Rogers Media lays off 87 employees over 2 days as it grapples with print challenges
TORONTO - Rogers Media has laid off 27 full-time employees in its English-language digital content and publishing division, following the dismissal of 60 full-time employees Tuesday. The telecommunica...
Nov 30, 2016
Marijuana task force wraps study but findings stuck in translation
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet had expected to receive findings from a task force studying the legalization of marijuana, but the document is stuck in translation limbo. The te...
Nov 30, 2016
Trudeau's pipeline approvals complicate math of cutting Canada's GHG emissions
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the approval this week of two major oil pipeline expansions, insisting all the while that the new fossil fuel infrastructure fits within his Liberal go...
Nov 30, 2016
Fighter pilot killed in training crash had an important job: family
COLD LAKE, Alta. - Relatives of an Air Force pilot killed when a CF-18 fighter jet crashed during a training exercise near the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary says he died doing what he loved. A stateme...
Nov 30, 2016
Bennett embarrassed at handling of legislation designed to change Indian Act
OTTAWA - Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett says she was personally embarrassed by the handling of a piece of legislation designed to change sex-based rules in the Indian Act. While speaking ...
Nov 30, 2016
The Wednesday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Nov. 30 --- NOTLEY TO HEAD TO B.C. TO SELL PIPELINE MERITS: Alberta Premier Rachel Notley will head to B.C. next week to promote Kinder Morgan’s Tran...
Nov 30, 2016
Timeline of Africville's history in Halifax
HALIFAX - A look at the history of Africville in Halifax: 1848: The first black settlers buy land in Africville, establishing the community as a home for African-Nova Scotians. 1849: Residents build A...
Nov 30, 2016
Trump nominates NAFTA critic to handle United States Commerce post
WASHINGTON - A vocal critic of the North American Free Trade Agreement will be in charge of the U.S. commerce portfolio, with the nomination Wednesday of Wilbur Ross, a billionaire investor who condem...
Nov 30, 2016
Jury deciding fate of Toronto senior charged with murder of care home resident
TORONTO - A Toronto jury is now deliberating the fate of a Toronto senior accused of murdering a fellow resident in a long-term care home and trying to kill another. Peter Brooks, 76, has pleaded not ...
Nov 30, 2016
'Surprising and stressful:' Small-town Alberta woman claims $50M Lotto Max win
ST. ALBERT, Alta. - An Alberta woman from a farming village of less than 500 people says she was surprised and stressed when she found out she’d won a $50-million Lotto Max jackpot. Lois Olsen o...
Nov 30, 2016