Category Archives: Canada

Fredericton police release scene of shooting spree, but 'damage' remains
FREDERICTON - Residents of the Fredericton apartment complex that was the scene of Friday’s deadly shooting spree are being allowed back into their homes, but many are already thinking about mov...
Aug 14, 2018

Google Generation's push for more technology transforming health care: survey
TORONTO - Digitally savvy Canadians who make up the Google Generation are on the leading edge of a transformation in the health-care system that will see a greater reliance on technology, including ho...
Aug 14, 2018

Weed's want ads longer, marijuana job searches up as industry grows: study
OTTAWA - The growth of Canada’s soon-to-be-legal recreational pot industry is starting to create a small buzz among job hunters. The job website Indeed has released new numbers that show cannabi...
Aug 14, 2018

In the news today, Aug. 14
Seven stories in the news for Tuesday, Aug. 14 --- MAXIME BERNIER SLAMS TRUDEAU ON DIVERSITY Conservative MP Maxime Bernier is taking issue with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s oft-repeated supp...
Aug 14, 2018

Court hearing on Humboldt Broncos fundraising a first under new Saskatchewan law
SASKATOON - A court hearing related to money raised following the Humboldt Broncos bus crash will be the first real test of Saskatchewan’s efforts to regulate crowdfunding campaigns, says a lawy...
Aug 14, 2018

Feds mulling safeguards to prevent 'surge' of cheap steel imports into Canada
OTTAWA - The federal government extended an olive branch of sorts to Donald Trump’s tough-on-trade White House on Tuesday as it began exploring how best to address industry concerns that U.S. ta...
Aug 14, 2018
Highlights of Ontario's private cannabis retail model and online platform
TORONTO - Ontario says it will sell recreational cannabis through an online retail channel when it is legalized this fall, with plans to have pot in private retail stores early next year. Here are the...
Aug 13, 2018
Proof of climate perils seen in cost for flood, fire cleanups: safety minister
SASKATOON - Canada’s minister for public safety and emergency preparedness has told delegates at an international irrigation and drainage conference that flood and fire losses are costing Canadi...
Aug 13, 2018

Supply management, abortion among policies Tories to debate at convention
OTTAWA - Getting rid of supply management and regulating abortion are just two of the more than six dozen policy resolutions that will be on the agenda at the federal Conservative party’s bienni...
Aug 13, 2018
Preliminary hearing begins in Quebec in double murder case
SAINT-JEROME, Que. - A preliminary hearing began Monday for a Quebec man accused of two murders following an Amber Alert last year. The man faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of his ex-pa...
Aug 13, 2018