Category Archives: Canada
Fort McMurray wildfire adds $500M to Alberta's projected deficit
EDMONTON - The devastating Fort McMurray wildfire is expected to torch Alberta’s bottom line by about $500 million this year. Finance Minister Joe Ceci says he has had to revise the projected de...
Aug 23, 2016
Workers find moulted snake skin in drain as reptile eludes capture in Victoria
VICTORIA - Works crews in Victoria have extracted moulted skin from a storm drain where a stubborn corn snake has been hiding for several days. The snake, estimated at about two metres in length, was ...
Aug 23, 2016
Race needs an outsider, Toronto Tory says in launching her bid for leadership
OTTAWA - The list of candidates for Conservative leadership is broadening beyond current and former MPs with the entrance of a Toronto communications consultant who says she believes an outside perspe...
Aug 23, 2016
Venezuela ordered to pay Vancouver-based mining firm more than US$1.2 billion
An international arbitration tribunal has ordered Venezuela to pay a Vancouver-based mining company more than US$1.2 billion for expropriating its gold mines. Venezuela took over Rusoro Mining’s...
Aug 23, 2016
Muslim leaders dispute charge that extremist writings common in mosque libraries
OTTAWA - Canadian Muslim leaders are fiercely disputing a new study that says several mosques and Islamic schools are endangering young people with extremist teachings. The study is “yet another...
Aug 23, 2016
Taxes, fees and bankruptcies up as Newfoundland and Labrador budget reverberates
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Newfoundland and Labrador is now leading all provinces for inflation - but critics say the full impact of its tax-hiking spring budget still hasn’t kicked in. The latest...
Aug 23, 2016
Sobeys likely to withdraw appeal of discrimination decision, facing boycott
HALIFAX - One of Canada’s largest grocery store chains says it intends to withdraw an appeal of a human rights decision that found a Sobeys employee discriminated against a black customer - but ...
Aug 23, 2016
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall shuffles cabinet as promised after election
REGINA - Six ministers have changed portfolios and four new faces have been added in a major cabinet shuffle Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall promised after last spring’s election. Some high-profi...
Aug 23, 2016
Union says layoffs at Manitoba paper mill Tolko 'deer-in-headlights stuff'
THE PAS, Man. - A spokesman for Canada’s largest private-sector union says word that a big northern Manitoba forest products plant is shutting down has left staff at the mill stunned and feeling...
Aug 23, 2016
Ashley Madison had inadequate security safeguards, privacy officials say
Ashley Madison marketed itself as a discreet and secure service, but the site for married people seeking affairs had inadequate security safeguards and policies when it was targeted by hackers, privac...
Aug 23, 2016