Category Archives: Canada
Ex-Liberal candidate in Burnaby, B.C., says volunteer wrote controversial post
VANCOUVER - A former Liberal byelection candidate says her political career is “probably” over after an online post singled out NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh’s ethnicity, but she’s ...
Jan 17, 2019
Legault lays out Quebec demands for federal leaders facing fall election
SHERBROOKE, Que. - Quebec Premier Francois Legault laid out a shopping list of demands Thursday that he expects party leaders to address as they woo voters in his province during the coming federal el...
Jan 17, 2019
Ontario's Tories eliminate free tuition for low-income students
TORONTO - Ontario has eliminated free tuition for low-income students as it attempts to trim a multibillion-dollar deficit, a move that - despite an accompanying tuition fee cut - is being slammed as ...
Jan 17, 2019
Barack Obama, former U.S. president, to speak in Vancouver in early March
VANCOUVER - Former United States president Barack Obama is coming to Vancouver. The Greater Vancouver Board of Trade says in a statement that Obama will speak March 5 during a late afternoon event at ...
Jan 17, 2019
Hundreds of people lost millions in GTA taxi fraud scam, police say
TORONTO - An ongoing fraud and identity theft operation targeting taxi riders in the Greater Toronto Area has already cost hundreds of people millions of dollars, city police said Thursday as they ann...
Jan 17, 2019
British sailor's gang rape case adjourned, verdict expected Friday
HALIFAX - The high-profile case of a British sailor accused in an alleged gang rape at a Halifax-area military base has been adjourned until Friday. Justice Patrick Duncan was scheduled to deliver his...
Jan 17, 2019
Former PQ minister Yves-Francois Blanchet acclaimed as Bloc Quebecois leader
MONTREAL - The Bloc Quebecois will vote only in Quebec’s interests without regard for the rest of the country, Yves-Francois Blanchet vowed Thursday on his first day as leader of the struggling ...
Jan 17, 2019
Flush the milk: Study finds more than half of food produced in Canada wasted
More than half the food produced in Canada is wasted and the average kitchen tosses out hundreds of dollars worth of edibles every year, says a study researchers are calling the first of its kind. ...
Jan 17, 2019
Freeland condemns killers of Canadian mining executive found dead in Africa
HALIFAX - Canadian officials are condemning the killers of a Halifax mining executive praised as a much-loved family man and highly talented geologist with a knack for spotting producing mines. Kirk W...
Jan 17, 2019
Police thought Dennis Oland might flee after his father's murder, trial told
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Police believed that Dennis Oland, the prime suspect in the murder of his father, Richard, was a flight risk and that is why they tried to rush evidence through the RCMP crime lab. ...
Jan 17, 2019