Category Archives: Canada
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
Evacuation remains in effect around Bear Creek wildfire near West Kelowna, B.C.
WEST KELOWNA, B.C. - Visitors forced to flee from a campsite in B.C.’s Okanagan Valley ahead of a raging wildfire on Sunday night will have a chance to retrieve abandoned items. The Central Okan...
Aug 23, 2016
Federal, provincial Liberals signing $1.49-billion transit funding agreement
OTTAWA - The federal treasury is doling out $1.49 billion worth of transit funding among cities in Ontario for track upgrades, new buses and improvements and accessibility upgrades to stations, the pr...
Aug 23, 2016
B.C. study says rats remain slackers even when given medicinal part of marijuana
VANCOUVER - Apparent laziness caused by the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana persists even when the same amount of pot’s medicinal component is added, a new study suggests. Lead author ...
Aug 23, 2016
Peter Doig 'absolutely did not paint' Canadian-owned work, judge rules
A painting at the centre of a strange multimillion-dollar civil lawsuit filed by a former Canadian correctional officer who owns the canvas was not the work of famed artist Peter Doig, a Chicago judge...
Aug 23, 2016
Family of toddler withdraws sexual assault complaint
Halifax police say the family of a toddler who was the victim of an alleged sexual assault is withdrawing their complaint. Spokeswoman Const. Dianne Woodworth said the department respects their decisi...
Aug 23, 2016
Elsie Wayne: popular Saint John mayor and MP dead at the age of 84
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - When Elsie Wayne called Saint John, N.B., “the greatest little city in the east,” she made you believe it - and it was that unassailable love of her city that carried he...
Aug 23, 2016
Aboriginals rally at '60s Scoop courthouse as class-action hearing begins
TORONTO - Scores of aboriginals from across Ontario rallied Tuesday ahead of a landmark court hearing on whether the Canadian government robbed them of their cultural identities during a two-decade pe...
Aug 23, 2016
Ethics commissioner to examine Philpott use of vehicle service owned by Liberal
OTTAWA - Ethics commissioner Mary Dawson is now examining whether Health Minister Jane Philpott violated the Conflict of Interest Act in her use of a high-end car service owned by a Liberal supporter....
Aug 23, 2016