Category Archives: Canada
A look at declining magazine circulation numbers for Rogers since 2010
TORONTO - The days of leafing through magazines in the doctor’s office are increasingly something from a bygone era. As print readership rates have fallen, so has print revenue. Rogers Media ann...
Sep 30, 2016
1,700 households in Windsor, Ont., area damaged by flooding from rainstorm
WINDSOR, Ont. - Officials say more than 1,700 households in the southwestern Ontario communities of Windsor, Tecumseh and Lakeshore have been damaged due to a rainstorm that began Wednesday night. Tec...
Sep 30, 2016
Big city mayors ask federal Liberals for $12.6B for affordable housing
OTTAWA - The mayors of Canada’s largest cities are making a billion-dollar push for federal housing money just as the Liberals are set to finalize a national strategy, and the minister responsib...
Sep 30, 2016
Rogers stops the presses on 4 magazines, cuts back others due to print revenue drop
TORONTO - Rogers Media announced Friday a sweeping overhaul of its magazines - with Flare, Sportsnet, MoneySense and Canadian Business becoming online-only publications - in response to declines in su...
Sep 30, 2016
Israel approves of Trudeau funeral delegation, as PM meets Netanyahu
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau won the approval of his Israeli hosts for the size and quality of Canada’s delegation to Friday’s funeral of Shimon Peres. Trudeau was also one of a ...
Sep 30, 2016
Economic development help for hard-hit northern Manitoba towns
CHURCHILL, Man. - A federal promise of $4.6 million for economic development projects in northern Manitoba was received Friday as a welcome, but temporary, measure to help a regional economy that has ...
Sep 30, 2016
Flare founder bemoans demise of Canadian fashion magazine
TORONTO - Flare’s visionary founder says she’s sad to see the fashion publication disappear from newsstands, calling it a rare vehicle for Canadian women to see themselves reflected in a s...
Sep 30, 2016
Thunder Bay, Ont., police probing racist online comments allegedly made by cop
THUNDER BAY, Ont. - Police in Thunder Bay, Ont., are investigating allegations that racist comments posted on a local newspaper’s Facebook page were made by members of the police service. They s...
Sep 30, 2016
Prairie farmers expected to benefit from global warming by growing corn, soy
BANFF, Alta. - Farmers on the Canadian Prairies are “literally” the only agricultural winners on the planet as a result of global warming, according to an economist studying global food su...
Sep 30, 2016
Liberals call Commons debate, vote on ratifying Paris climate commitments
OTTAWA - The Liberal government will hold a debate and a vote in the House of Commons next week on whether Canada should ratify the international Paris climate accord. The debate by MPs is to begin Mo...
Sep 30, 2016