Category Archives: Canada
Sophie Gregoire Trudeau to open TSX to mark International Day of the Girl
TORONTO - Sophie Gregoire Trudeau will open the trading day at the Toronto Stock Exchange on Tuesday to mark International Day of the Girl. She is collaborating with three charitable organizations - G...
Oct 10, 2016
Republican party on the precipice of civil war, 29 days before election
WASHINGTON - The Republican party inched toward civil war less than a month before election day, as spiralling poll numbers and controversies lit the fuse Monday for a potentially explosive conflict b...
Oct 10, 2016
U.S. preparing to emulate Canada's private refugee-sponsor system
WASHINGTON - The United States appears to be working toward a system for privately sponsoring refugees, potentially making it the latest country to emulate the program Canada has deployed during the S...
Oct 10, 2016
Feds ban new embassies along Sussex Drive after RCMP flags security concerns
OTTAWA - The federal government is forbidding the construction of new embassies on Ottawa’s Sussex Drive following a stark RCMP assessment of the potential for “violent events” in th...
Oct 10, 2016
Former Ontario farmers creating Amish paradise on Prince Edward Island
MONTAGUE, P.E.I. - There’s a sudden population boom in eastern P.E.I., and the local hardware store has been buzzing. Home Hardware owner Mark Beck says they’ve been busy supplying new cus...
Oct 10, 2016
Ottawa warned about law that stripped some Canadians of citizenship: advocate
VANCOUVER - The Canadian government was aware and warned repeatedly years before an arcane law began stripping longtime Canadians of their citizenship, says a man who spent decades lobbying for change...
Oct 10, 2016
How vicious was the Trump-Clinton debate? Comparisons with past ones
WASHINGTON - The latest debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton was vicious by historical standards. Here’s a comparison. Moments deemed awkward in previous presidential debates, and thi...
Oct 10, 2016
'You'd be in jail' if I'm president: Trump to Clinton in memorably nasty debate
WASHINGTON - A spectacularly nasty U.S. presidential debate began with the participants refusing to shake hands and culminated in an unprecedented threat from one candidate to throw the other in priso...
Oct 09, 2016
Mississauga mayor considering legal action after allegations against her
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - The mayor of Mississauga, Ont., says she is considering legal action after an independent news website published allegations against her, her family and the city’s Muslim com...
Oct 09, 2016
Fiat-Chrysler continues contract talks with Canadian workers
TORONTO - There is no Thanksgiving break for management and union negotiators at Fiat-Chrysler’s Canadian operations. The two sides are bargaining through the long weekend in hopes of reaching a...
Oct 09, 2016