Category Archives: Canada
A tax credit for P.E.I. bridge tolls? Budget officer pegs cost at $2.5M
OTTAWA - The federal budget watchdog says that creating a tax credit for local residents who regularly pay tolls on the Confederation Bridge would cost the treasury about $2.5 million a year in forgon...
Aug 31, 2016
Justin Trudeau debuts on Marvel cover alongside Canadian superheroes, Iron Man
TORONTO - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has officially entered the Marvel universe - and the boxing ring - as a newly minted comic cover star. Trudeau appears on the variant cover of issue No. 5 of Ma...
Aug 31, 2016
Seven stories in the news today, Aug. 31
Seven stories in the news today from The Canadian Press --- CANADA POST, CUPW REACH TENTATIVE AGREEMENT Canada Post and its largest union have reached a tentative settlement, averting the prospect of ...
Aug 31, 2016
Gaps leave children at risk of online exploitation, federal study warns
OTTAWA - There are “serious gaps” - in resources, training and research - in efforts to protect young people from online sexual exploitation, warns a study prepared for the federal governm...
Aug 31, 2016
Canadian economy shrinks in second quarter, worst showing since financial crisis
OTTAWA - Weak exports and the Alberta wildfires hammered the Canadian economy as it posted its worst quarterly performance since the global financial crisis, but the three-month period ended on a posi...
Aug 31, 2016
Envoy lists snags to Canada-China free trade: labour, environment and investment
BEIJING - Formal free trade talks between Canada and China have yet to proceed because of snags over labour, the environment and concerns linked to Chinese state-owned enterprises, says Ottawa’s...
Aug 31, 2016
China gives Canada reprieve in canola dispute by extending deadline
BEIJING - China says it will lift a fast-approaching deadline to introduce rule changes on Canadian canola shipments that threatened to inflict damage on the multibillion-dollar sector. Starting Thurs...
Aug 30, 2016
Canadian National Exhibition shuts down early due to fights, overcrowding
TORONTO - The Canadian National Exhibition shut down a few hours earlier than planned on Tuesday night due to overcrowding and fighting inside the fairgrounds. The CNE said on its website that it was ...
Aug 30, 2016
NDP handily wins Nova Scotia byelection race in Halifax party stronghold
HALIFAX - The provincial NDP in Nova Scotia has handily won a byelection in one of its Halifax strongholds in what one pollster says is an early test of the party’s leftward shift. Unofficial re...
Aug 30, 2016
Canada Post, postal union avert job action, reach tentative deals
OTTAWA - Labour Minister MaryAnn Mihychuk says Canada Post and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers have reached tentative agreements, averting the prospect of a labour dispute that has loomed over th...
Aug 30, 2016