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Concerns raised over high fees charged to temporary foreign workers
OTTAWA - Canada needs to do more to protect temporary foreign workers from being charged predatory recruiting fees and falling victim to human trafficking, says a national non-profit organization that...
May 28, 2018
Via Rail cancels service between Sudbury and White River as CP Rail strike looms
MONTREAL - Via Rail Canada has cancelled some service in Northern Ontario because of a strike notice given to Canadian Pacific Railway by its unions. The unions representing train operators and signal...
May 28, 2018
Royal newlyweds are not booked to stay at the Fairmont in Jasper: spokeswoman
JASPER, Alta. - A spokeswoman for the Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge has shot down reports that the resort will host newlyweds Prince Harry and Meghan on their honeymoon. The statement comes after the gos...
May 28, 2018
Wynne's threat to order York U strikers back to work sign of 'desperation'
TORONTO - A re-elected Liberal government would order striking York University workers back to the classroom, the party’s leader pledged Monday in what some experts called a desperate attempt to...
May 28, 2018
Blue Jays' Josh Donaldson leaves game in Boston with calf tightness
BOSTON - Josh Donaldson is hurting again. The Blue Jays star third baseman, who has a history of calf problems, left Toronto’s 8-3 loss to the Boston Red Sox in the fifth inning Monday with left...
May 28, 2018
Young girl injured in mini dirt bike accident
A seven-year-old girl was taken to hospital with a broken leg after being struck by a mini dirt bike on a rural property southeast of Red Deer Sunday. Blackfalds RCMP confirm it happened around 3:00 p...
May 28, 2018
Serge Dassault, French aviation industrialist, dies at 93
PARIS - French business executive Serge Dassault, a top aviation and arms industrialist and one of France’s richest men, died Monday in his Paris office. He was 93. Dassault’s family annou...
May 28, 2018
Six Montrealers facing extradition to the U.S. for alleged fraud
MONTREAL - A Pennsylvania woman who is among the alleged victims of a lottery scheme involving six Montreal-area men has testified she lost nearly US$300,000. The six are facing extradition to the Uni...
May 28, 2018
Central Alberta zoo gets $500 in fines after ice cream eating bear video
RED DEER, Alta. - A central Alberta zoo must pay $500 in fines after taking a bear for ice cream at a drive-thru. A video posted on social media in January by Discovery Wildlife Park in Innisfail, Alt...
May 28, 2018
Green Leader Elizabeth May gets $1,500 fine for contempt in pipeline arrest
VANCOUVER - Green Leader Elizabeth May pleaded guilty to a criminal contempt of court charge Monday, moments before a British Columbia Supreme Court judge said the MP exploited her position to encoura...
May 28, 2018