Category Archives: Canada
Allowing municipalities to opt out of pot shops helps black market: experts
As municipalities across Ontario weigh whether to allow cannabis retail stores in their neighbourhoods, experts and consumer choice advocates warn that having large swaths of the province opt out of b...
Dec 20, 2018
Canada can hit Paris promise if we switch to electric cars and public transit
OTTAWA - Canada’s current climate-change plans leave it 79 million tonnes shy of its greenhouse-gas emissions targets but Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says most of that gap will be clo...
Dec 20, 2018
Coerced sterilization reports sparking concern in Canada's medical community
OTTAWA - Reports detailing allegations of coerced and forced sterilizations of Indigenous women are “deeply concerning” and describe serious violations of medical ethics, the president of ...
Dec 20, 2018
Former children's hospital CEO 'ready for the fight' in fraud case, lawyer says
HALIFAX - The former CEO of Halifax’s IWK Health Centre is “anxious” but ready to fight fraud charges, her lawyer says. Tracy Kitch and former IWK chief financial officer Stephen D&#...
Dec 20, 2018
Canadian Press business newsmaker of the year selections over the years
OTTAWA - A list of The Canadian Press business newsmakers of the year, as determined in an annual poll of newsrooms across the country: 2018: Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland 2017: Federal F...
Dec 20, 2018
NAFTA drama earns Chrystia Freeland CP's Business Newsmaker of 2018
OTTAWA - There will be drama. Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland took pains to predict that in a lengthy August 2017 speech that spelled out Canada’s goals at the start of the North Amer...
Dec 20, 2018
What makes chickens happy? University of Guelph researchers try to find out
NEW YORK - How do you measure a chicken’s happiness? Is it in the way it runs for food? How much time it spends preening? To size up what might make chickens happy in their brief lives, research...
Dec 20, 2018
Advice to Canadians in China after third Canadian detained: 'Lie low'
TORONTO - An expert in Canada-China relations warns the recent detaining of an Alberta woman over what authorities have called employment issues could signal a ramping up of low-level harassment as th...
Dec 20, 2018
Environment Canada meteorologist says 2018 was 'smorgasbord' of bad events
Choking from smoke, sweltering in the heat or cursing early or late snow, Canadians could be forgiven for asking just what the heck happened to the weather in 2018. “It was almost a smorgasbord ...
Dec 20, 2018
In the news today, Dec. 20
Four stories in the news for Thursday, Dec. 20 --- WOMEN’S HOCKEY TEAM ADDS VOICE TO SEATBELT PUSH Players with the University of Alberta Pandas women’s hockey team are adding their voices...
Dec 20, 2018