Category Archives: Canada
Figures show B.C. foreign buyers tax set off completion frenzy before deadline
VICTORIA - Property purchase figures released Thursday by British Columbia’s government reveals a stampede of foreign home buyers scrambling to avoid paying an additional 15 per cent a tax in th...
Sep 22, 2016
Vacation over for pair of grizzlies caught on remote island in B.C.
ALERT BAY, B.C. - A nearly week-long holiday of swimming and munching on berries has come to an end for two grizzly bears that have been caught on a tiny island just off the north-east tip of Vancouve...
Sep 22, 2016
Nestle outbids small Ontario municipality to buy well for bottled water
TORONTO - A small but fast growing Ontario community looking for a safe drinking water supply has been outbid in its attempt to buy a well by multinational giant Nestle, which acquired the site to ens...
Sep 22, 2016
Longtime Calgary MP Jason Kenney delivers final speech in House of Commons
OTTAWA - Conservative MP Jason Kenney has made his last speech in the House of Commons as he prepares to quit federal politics to focus on a bid to unite the provincial right in Alberta. Kenney’...
Sep 22, 2016
Statcan sets plan to keep consumer price index from slipping into irrelevancy
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada officials were warned late last year that one of the country’s most important economic indicators was at risk of losing its relevance and accuracy. The red flag raised...
Sep 22, 2016
Bomb threat shuts down Nunavut schools temporarily; will reopen when safe
IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut RCMP say a bomb threat that caused evacuations at schools in three regions of the territory was a hoax. Mounties say all elementary schools, high schools and colleges have b...
Sep 22, 2016
Shell weighs options of two kilometres of dropped pipe near abandoned wellhead
HALIFAX - Shell Canada may have abandoned the first of its deepwater wells off Nova Scotia, but questions remain on what to do about an undersea coil of steel pipes - each weighing at least 20 tonnes ...
Sep 22, 2016
Maryam Monsef, Canada's first Afghan cabinet minister, says she was born in Iran
OTTAWA - A longtime refugee advocate says stories such as that of Liberal MP Maryam Monsef are not uncommon as families fleeing war and violence reconstruct their past in a new land. Monsef, widely to...
Sep 22, 2016
Find alternatives to harmful practice of jailing child migrants: report
OTTAWA - A new report by human rights researchers urges Canada to urgently find alternatives to locking up child migrants, saying the practice has a harmful and lasting effect on already vulnerable ne...
Sep 22, 2016
P.E.I. schools reopen after bomb threat prompts provincewide evacuation
CHARLOTTETOWN - Schools across P.E.I. reopened Thursday after all were evacuated over a bomb threat that police determined was not credible. P.E.I. Premier Wade MacLauchlan says his government will ta...
Sep 22, 2016