Category Archives: Canada
Majority of first-time buyers maxed out budgets to buy a home: CMHC
TORONTO - The country’s real estate market may be taking a breather, but a new survey suggests the vast majority of recent homebuyers are maxing out their budgets to purchase their first homes. ...
Oct 18, 2018
Young woman's credibility at centre of gang rape trial in Halifax
HALIFAX - The credibility of a woman who alleges she was gang raped at a Halifax-area military base was undermined by inconsistencies in her testimony, the lawyer for an accused British sailor told No...
Oct 18, 2018
Police called after Nova Scotia cleaners mop, vacuum wrong house
HALIFAX - Homeowners who thought they had been robbed got a happy surprise instead: Their house was cleaned for free by cleaners who went to the wrong address. Police say the two women went to the hom...
Oct 18, 2018
Problems plagued military trip that led to charges against former NHLer: Report
OTTAWA - Canada’s top general is overhauling military morale-boosting tours after an internal investigation uncovered the extent of the problems with a 2017 trip to Latvia that resulted in a sex...
Oct 18, 2018
Change coming, Francois Legault vows as he becomes Quebec premier
Quebec Premier Francois Legault promised to bring renewal and change to the province’s politics Thursday after his convincing election victory ended nearly 50 years of Liberal and Parti Quebecoi...
Oct 18, 2018
Punjabi-Canadians roll into trucking, rerouting a traditional industry
Nachhattar Singh Chohan lived in Canada eight years before he tried his hand at trucking. A former brake plant worker and gas station attendant with farming roots, the then-34-year-old marshalled his ...
Oct 18, 2018
Police lay charges against man accused of jumping naked into shark tank
TORONTO - A British Columbia man is facing charges in two separate but related incidents in Toronto, including one where he’s accused of jumping naked into a shark tank at an aquarium. Toronto P...
Oct 18, 2018
Police hand out a few hefty fines for allegedly violating Cannabis Act
The celebratory mood that marked the legalization of recreational cannabis lost a bit of its high for some consumers who found themselves with hefty fines for allegedly violating laws around pot use. ...
Oct 18, 2018
'Some baloney' in assertion Canada's pension fund has highest ethical standards
OTTAWA - “We expect the CPPIB, like other Crown corporations, to live up to the highest standards of ethics and behaviour and that is, in fact, exactly what it is doing.” - Finance Ministe...
Oct 18, 2018
Military to overhaul morale-boosting trips after review finds serious problems
OTTAWA - Canada’s top general is overhauling military morale-boosting tours after an internal investigation uncovered the extent of the problems with a 2017 trip to Latvia that resulted in a sex...
Oct 18, 2018