Category Archives: Canada
Judge temporarily suspends controversial Montreal pit bull ban until Wednesday
MONTREAL - A Quebec judge temporarily suspended Montreal’s controversial regulation banning new pit bulls Monday and questioned whether the city overstepped its bounds in enacting the bylaw. Sup...
Oct 03, 2016
National carbon price to be $10 a tonne in 2018, $50 by 2022, Trudeau says
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pre-empted climate change negotiations with Canada’s premiers, announcing that the federal government will impose a pan-Canadian floor price on carbon ...
Oct 03, 2016
Grounded boat owned by Jamie's Whaling Station now off rocks near Tofino, B.C.
TOFINO, B.C. - A vessel belonging to a whale-watching company is no longer stranded on rocks off Vancouver Island. A spokesman with Jamie’s Whaling Station in Tofino, B.C., says the Stellar Sea ...
Oct 03, 2016
Labrador company asks top court to review lopsided hydro deal with Quebec
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Canada’s top court has been asked to review the 1969 Churchill Falls deal that has given Hydro-Quebec many times more in profits than Newfoundland and Labrador. The case...
Oct 03, 2016
Officials hope to herd stranded dolphins in New Brunswick back into open ocean
LAMEQUE, N.B. - Animal rescue crews are hoping to use “acoustic pingers” to herd six stranded dolphins out of a shallow waterway in northern New Brunswick, and back into open ocean. Andrew...
Oct 03, 2016
Drawn to the wild! Canada's growing love for exotic pets has experts worried
KAWARTHA LAKES, Ont. - As the sun sets over the sprawling property in rural Ontario, the farmhouse party gets into full swing. The host walks around chatting up the guests, two small monkeys perched o...
Oct 03, 2016
Band councillor decries brown, smelly water pouring from taps on N.S. reserve
ST. PETERS, N.S. - Residents of a Cape Breton native reserve are fed up with the brown, smelly water that is coming out of their taps and want Ottawa to come up with a permanent fix, a council member ...
Oct 03, 2016
Feds seek to ease housing market risks, slow influx of foreign cash
TORONTO - The federal government is taking steps to ease emerging risks in the country’s housing market with new measures to slow the injection of foreign cash and to tighten eligibility rules o...
Oct 03, 2016
Seven stories in the news today, Oct. 3
Seven stories in the news for Monday, Oct. 3 --- LAWYERS BACK IN COURT AFTER FLAWED MURDER VERDICT Defence lawyers and prosecutors return to an Edmonton courtroom today, two weeks after a judge used a...
Oct 03, 2016
Figures show Liberals set to fall short on promise of 5,000 green jobs for youth
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are being accused of breaking a promise to young Canadians with figures showing the government is falling well short of last year’s campaign pledge to create thousa...
Oct 03, 2016