Category Archives: Canada
Keesmaat vows to bring new brand of leadership to Canada's most populous city
TORONTO - An urban planner venturing into politics for the first time in an effort to unseat Toronto’s mayor is painting herself as the antidote to political apathy and vowing to bring a new bra...
Oct 18, 2018
Cannabis retailers, governments warn of lingering supply shortage
TORONTO - Demand for newly legal pot appears to be outstripping supply on the second day of legalization as retailers ran low on some products or were cleaned out completely, manifestations of a short...
Oct 18, 2018
Proposed new laws against bestiality don't go far enough, critics argue
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is proposing changes to strengthen laws against bestiality and animal fighting, but advocates against animal cruelty, including a Liberal MP, say these measures are the...
Oct 18, 2018
Feds defend barring edible cannabis for a year as black market eyes gaps
OTTAWA - The Liberal government is aware the massive black market for marijuana is banking on the appeal of products like cookies, tablets and vape pens but it defends waiting another year to greenlig...
Oct 18, 2018
'Not trying to be on the front page:' Toronto Mayor John Tory on re-election bid
TORONTO - Headlines and TV highlight clips are overrated, Mayor John Tory is saying at a Toronto diner shortly after he took his mother to vote in front of photographers ahead of Monday’s munici...
Oct 18, 2018
As testimony wraps at MMIW inquiry, commissioner says Ottawa has done little
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The chief commissioner of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls says she hasn’t seen much progress from the federal government since ...
Oct 18, 2018
From politics to pot: Legislators now in the cannabis business
OTTAWA - Former prime minister Jean Chretien once joked while in office that he would be ready to smoke marijuana in retirement, but a number of politicians and political operatives have actually foun...
Oct 18, 2018
Nova Scotia fixes online workaround of age requirement for cannabis sales
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s government-owned cannabis retailer said it has successfully taken measures to prevent people from skirting the access code required as part of age verification for online...
Oct 18, 2018
NDP calls on Liberals to further reduce credit card fees paid by small business
OTTAWA - The federal New Democrats are calling on the Liberal government to lower and cap the fees credit card companies collect from small businesses. Last summer, Ottawa announced voluntary, five-ye...
Oct 18, 2018
Father of terror suspect says his son is innocent, deserves Canada's protection
OTTAWA - The father of a British-Canadian man imprisoned in Syria says his son is not a terrorist and deserves Canada’s protection. In a letter to Canadian MPs, John Letts says his son, Jack, is...
Oct 18, 2018