Category Archives: Canada
Canadian Sawmill Jobs At Risk As Softwood Lumber Deal Appears To Fade: Analyst
MONTREAL - Canadian jobs and sawmills across the country are increasingly at risk because of fading prospects they will avoid a new round of U.S. duties on imported softwood lumber, according to an in...
Jun 19, 2016
Is This The Year For CPP Reform? Talks Heat Up As Ministers Prepare For Meeting
OTTAWA - The stars may finally align for an expansion to the Canada Pension Plan as national talks on its future are expected to intensify over the coming days. On Monday, federal, provincial and terr...
Jun 18, 2016
Judge Rules Some Stanley Cup Rioters Must Pay For Damaging Vehicles
VANCOUVER - A judge has ruled that some people who participated in the 2011 Stanley Cup riots in Vancouver are liable for damaging vehicles in the melee. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Elliott Myers said ...
Jun 18, 2016
Senators bow to will of elected Commons, vote to pass assisted dying bill
OTTAWA - Appointed senators have bowed to the will of the elected House of Commons, giving up their insistence that suffering Canadians who are not near death should have the right to seek medical hel...
Jun 17, 2016
Sunflower Seeds Recalled Following Listeria Scare
CANADA – Certain President’s Choice brand, Basse and Kashi brand products are being recalled due to possible Listeria contamination. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is warning against ...
Jun 04, 2016
Tragically Hip Fans Frustrated Again By Ticket Sale
CANADA - Tragically Hip fans may have expected disappointment, but for many who couldn’t buy concert tickets on Friday the sting was still sharp. Summer tour dates for the Hip sold out almost as...
Jun 04, 2016
Wildfires, refinery outage behind Petro-Canada fuel shortages in the West
CALGARY - The Fort McMurray wildfires and an unplanned outage at an Edmonton refinery are leading to fuel shortages at Suncor’s Petro-Canada stations across Western Canada. Suncor spokeswoman Sn...
Jun 03, 2016
Wildrose suspends MLA from caucus over Twitter insult about Wynne
EDMONTON – A brouhaha over comments made about Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne in the Alberta legislature escalate Friday night with the Opposition Wildrose party suspending the M-L-A who made th...
May 28, 2016
Canadian Class-Action Launched Over Johnson & Johnson's Baby Powder
TORONTO: A Canadian class-action lawsuit has been filed against Johnson & Johnson over an alleged link between its baby powder products and ovarian cancer in adult women who used the product for l...
May 27, 2016
After a Farewell to Harper, Conservatives Get Down to Work of Renewal
VANCOUVER - Thousands of Conservatives have bid farewell to former leader Stephen Harper and now get down to the work of renewing their party. The first full day of the Tories’ convention will f...
May 27, 2016