Category Archives: Canada
'We are the pioneers' N.S. prof striving to create perfect Christmas tree
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia professor is striving to create the ideal Christmas tree, inside the only research lab of its kind in the world. Dalhousie University’s Raj Lada is the director of the Ch...
Dec 09, 2018
In Canada, the term 'nationalism' doesn't seem to have a bad rap. Here's why.
OTTAWA - On a historic Remembrance Day, a century after the end of the First World War, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told a Paris crowd that decaying trust in public institutions will lead citizens t...
Dec 09, 2018
Toronto mayor, TTC union ask Ontario govt to step in on transit modernization
TORONTO - As the transit agency in Canada’s most populous city prepares to do away with its decades-old payment system, Toronto’s mayor and the union representing transit workers are askin...
Dec 09, 2018
Boy who was ISIL captive behind movement to bring bicycles to refugee children
WINNIPEG - Emad Mishko Tamo looks excitedly at his bright-green mountain bike and talks about how he’s looking forward to summer cycling adventures with other Yazidi refugee children in his comm...
Dec 09, 2018
No winning ticket for Saturday night's $9 million Lotto 649 jackpot
TORONTO - There was no winning ticket for the $9 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket holder in Ontario. The jackp...
Dec 09, 2018
Brothers, 20, face second-degree murder charge in death of teen: police
MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Police west of Toronto say two brothers have been arrested in the death of a 14-year-old boy. Investigators have said the teen’s body was found in a park in Mississauga, Ont....
Dec 08, 2018
China: Canada's detention of Huawei exec 'vile in nature'
BEIJING - China summoned the Canadian ambassador to protest the detention of a top executive of leading Chinese tech giant Huawei, calling it “unreasonable, unconscionable, and vile in nature...
Dec 08, 2018
Critics call for more transparency on Toronto's planned high-tech neighbourhood
TORONTO - Critics of a proposed high-tech neighbourhood planned for Toronto’s waterfront called for more transparency in the decision-making process amid mounting concerns over how the companies...
Dec 08, 2018
Little-known among consumers, Huawei has high profile in Canadian tech networks
TORONTO - Before the arrest of Huawei Technologies’ chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver last weekend, the Chinese company wasn’t a household name in Canada - certainly not in...
Dec 08, 2018
Nova Scotia community rallies behind hundreds who lost their jobs ahead of holidays
SYDNEY, N.S. - A Cape Breton community has leaped into action following the sudden closure of a Sydney, N.S., call centre that left nearly 700 people without jobs just three weeks before Christmas. In...
Dec 08, 2018