Category Archives: Canadian Press
Quebec's government-run cannabis stores opt for control over customer experience
MONTREAL - When Quebec’s state-run cannabis outlets open Wednesday morning, they will offer some 110 products - from containers of pre-rolled Tsunami brand joints to small vials of cannabis oil....
Oct 16, 2018
Girl who died after being hit by Calgary commuter train wandered off: parents
CALGARY - The father of a six-year old girl who died after being hit by a light-rail transit train says she wandered off as her mother was getting their children ready for school. The girl, who has be...
Oct 16, 2018
First-ever child porn suspect on FBI list pleads guilty
HELENA, Mont. - The first-ever child pornography suspect named to the FBI’s Most Wanted list cashed out his life savings and was fleeing law enforcement on a bus travelling across Montana last y...
Oct 16, 2018
Ford criticizes PM over pot, says cops need reliable equipment to test for pot
Ontario’s premier is criticizing the federal government over cannabis a day before recreational pot becomes legal, saying police aren’t equipped to reliably screen for drug-impaired drivin...
Oct 16, 2018
Industrial activities should be prohibited in marine protected areas: panel
HALIFAX - Oil and gas exploration and bottom-trawling fishing should be prohibited in the marine protected areas off Canada’s coasts, a federal advisory panel says. In a final report released Tu...
Oct 16, 2018
B.C. finance minister says speculation tax brings balance to housing crisis
VICTORIA - British Columbia’s proposed speculation and vacancy tax is aimed at cooling an overheated real estate market and convincing owners of vacant homes in some urban areas to either sell o...
Oct 16, 2018
Netherlands chooses clay court venue for Fed Cup tie with Canada
MONTREAL - Canada’s upcoming Fed Cup meeting with the host Netherlands will take place on the clay courts of the indoor Maaspoort Sports and Events venue in ‘s-Hertogenbosch. The Royal Dut...
Oct 16, 2018
Half of Canadian homeowners say cannabis use will hurt property values: poll
TORONTO - More than half of Canadian homeowners recently surveyed say they would be less likely to consider a property if they knew cannabis had been grown inside, according to a poll released Tuesday...
Oct 16, 2018
Killer-rapist Paul Bernardo set for parole bid after 25 years in prison
Paul Bernardo, whose very name became synonymous with sadistic sexual perversion, is expected to plead for release on Wednesday by arguing he has done what he could to improve himself during his 25 ye...
Oct 16, 2018
'They dithered; he withered:' Final arguments in Calgary child death trial
CALGARY - Jurors in the trial for a couple charged in their 14-month-old son’s death heard starkly differing accounts Tuesday of why he died. Jennifer and Jeromie Clark of Calgary have pleaded n...
Oct 16, 2018