Category Archives: Canada
New Brunswick seeks leave to appeal ruling on cross border beer imports
FREDERICTON - A New Brunswick judge has reserved decision on whether a cross-border beer battle with possible national implications for interprovincial trade can be appealed directly to the province&#...
Oct 13, 2016
Supreme Court will be asked to hear appeal from man who crashed into patio
EDMONTON - A man who crashed his SUV onto an Edmonton restaurant patio, killing a young boy, is appealling his sentence to the Supreme Court. Richard Suter was originally sentenced to four months in j...
Oct 13, 2016
Deal means former Nortel employees and pensioners closer to getting paid
TORONTO - A nearly eight-year legal battle over how to divide what remains of Nortel Networks Corp. has ended in a deal that will put a stop to legal fees eating away at the remaining US$7.3 billion p...
Oct 12, 2016
Victoria top city for women in Canada, while Windsor, Ont., places last: report
TORONTO - A new study ranks Victoria as the best city to be a woman in Canada, while Windsor, Ont., rated last of the country’s 25 largest metropolitan areas. The study by Canadian Centre for Po...
Oct 12, 2016
A by-the-numbers look at Canadians who received medical treatment abroad
VANCOUVER - The Fraser Institute says an estimated 45,619 Canadians left the country for non-emergency medical treatments in 2015. Here’s a by-the-numbers look at how 2015 compares to previous y...
Oct 12, 2016
Global anxiety about change best tackled by first helping families, says Morneau
MONTREAL - Finance Minister Bill Morneau said global public anxieties about trade, jobs and change can best be calmed by first getting citizens to buy into government efforts to help their families. &...
Oct 12, 2016
2 Toronto residents face 18 forgery charges in 'secret shopper' fraud probe
LONDON, Ont. - The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and Toronto police say two Toronto residents are facing a total of 18 forgery charges arising from a nine-month investigation into what investigators a...
Oct 12, 2016
Trilogy Energy says oil emulsion spill in Alberta has covered 3 hectares
CALGARY - Trilogy Energy says the pipeline leak it discovered late last week in north central Alberta has covered an area about three hectares in size with oil emulsion - about the size of five CFL fi...
Oct 12, 2016
NDP consultations find overwhelming support for proportional voting system
OTTAWA - New Democrats are putting pressure on the Trudeau government to adopt a proportional voting system in time for the next federal election in 2019. NDP democratic reform critic Nathan Cullen sa...
Oct 12, 2016
Dangerous offender who tortured, starved Calgary roommate appealing conviction
CALGARY - Lawyers for an Alberta man who was declared a dangerous offender for torturing his roommate appealed his conviction before the province’s top court Wednesday. Dustin Paxton, now 36, wa...
Oct 12, 2016