Category Archives: Canada
Canada's largest real estate board sues listings website Mongohouse for $2.1M
TORONTO - The Toronto Real Estate Board is suing property listings website Mongohouse for $2 million, alleging that the anonymously-run page is illegally accessing, copying and distributing proprietar...
Oct 04, 2018
Still 'a long way to go' in Canada Post contract dispute, union says
OTTAWA - The union representing 50,000 employees at Canada Post panned the latest contract offers from the corporation Thursday, calling them “disappointing” and keeping alive the threat o...
Oct 04, 2018
Eastern Metis chief says Mi'kmaq, Metis National Council are 'fear mongering'
HALIFAX - The chief of one of the largest eastern Metis groups is condemning an agreement between the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs and the Metis National Council, saying it creates ...
Oct 04, 2018
Ontario researchers testing origins of life theory in new planet simulator
A small group of Ontario researchers believe they may have solved the origins of life mystery. The results come from early experiments run in a planet simulator at McMaster University’s new Orig...
Oct 04, 2018
Montreal soaring to new economic heights, but headwinds still buffet the summit
MONTREAL - In a sun-lit lecture space at Ecole Polytechnique, Joelle Pineau explained how a machine can create a recipe from a photo of a tourtiere. It's not easy as pie, but rather the fruit of 12 mo...
Oct 04, 2018
Medallist wants to put paddle in water for Liberals in next federal election
OTTAWA - An Olympic kayaker is looking to splash Liberal gold on a southern Ontario riding long held by the Conservatives. Decorated athlete Adam van Koeverden announced Thursday he hopes to run as a ...
Oct 04, 2018
Philippe Couillard leaves politics with plea for tolerance of minorities
QUEBEC - Outgoing Quebec premier Philippe Couillard made an impassioned plea for the respect of minority rights Thursday as he announced he is leaving politics following the Liberals’ election d...
Oct 04, 2018
'Some baloney' in Trudeau's claims about supply management under new trade deal
OTTAWA - “We have a supply management system that continues to be very much in place to protect both our agricultural sector and our consumers. This is something that continues. We have made mod...
Oct 04, 2018
A barrage of cards for N.S. widower: 'I'm amazed and I'm so thankful'
SYDNEY, N.S. - A delighted Nova Scotia widower has received nearly a thousand letters from around the world, days after his daughter invited people to send him cards as he approached his first birthda...
Oct 04, 2018
In the news today, Oct. 4
Five stories in the news for Thursday, Oct. 4 ___ FORD IN SASKATCHEWAN TO TALK CARBON TAX Ontario Premier Doug Ford is bringing his anti-carbon tax crusade to Saskatchewan. Ford is to meet with Premie...
Oct 04, 2018