Category Archives: Canada
Ontario fire marshal to conduct tests after 'flame-jetting' injuries and death
TORONTO - The Ontario fire marshal’s office says it will conduct tests this fall to better understand how hand-held fuel containers could ignite and inadvertently become flame-throwers when used...
Jul 28, 2018
Guy Turcotte won't appeal earlier decision on parole eligibility, lawyer says
MONTREAL - Guy Turcotte’s lawyer says his client will not pursue a bid to reduce the minimum number of years he must serve in prison for murdering his two young children. Pierre Poupart says Tur...
Jul 28, 2018
Doug Ford's approach to Toronto council dismays Hamilton mayor
TORONTO - A unilateral decision by Premier Doug Ford to slash the size of Toronto’s city council in half has dismayed at least one other big city mayor in Ontario. In an interview from Hamilton,...
Jul 28, 2018
Not cuts: Manitoba Liberal leader believes government stimulus needed
WINNIPEG - Manitoba Liberal Leader Dougald Lamont says he intends to fight the Progressive Conservative government’s cost-cutting agenda and push for public spending to stimulate the economy and...
Jul 28, 2018
Cda-US negotiators tussle over updating Columbia River Treaty
Canadian negotiators are not budging on a request by their American counterparts to reduce an electricity entitlement under a treaty that the United States says is worth as much as $200 million a year...
Jul 27, 2018
Thieves in B.C. use sport utility vehicle to ram through mall and steal jewelry
VERNON, B.C. - A pair of robbers used a sport utility vehicle to smash their way into a jewelry store in a mall in Vernon, B.C. Police say mall surveillance video shows the Toyota FJ Cruiser ramming t...
Jul 27, 2018
Quebec personalized licence plates: website crashes on first day
MONTREAL - Quebecers hoping to purchase personalized licence plates Friday were out of luck after sections of the province’s automobile insurance board website crashed. The technical glitch occu...
Jul 27, 2018
Hamilton chiropractor charged with alleged sexual assault of two women
A Ontario chiropractor, already facing discipline with professional watchdogs, has been charged in connection with two alleged sexual assaults on his patients. A woman reported to Hamilton police earl...
Jul 27, 2018
How would Ontario's plan to change Toronto politics work? An explainer
The Ontario government threw a wrench into some of the province’s municipal politics on Friday by announcing a huge reduction to the size of Toronto’s city council and the cancellation of ...
Jul 27, 2018
Montreal backs Toronto health authorities calling for decriminalizing drugs
MONTREAL - The director of Montreal’s public health department is welcoming a recent report by Toronto’s board of health pushing the federal government to decriminalize all drugs. Mylene D...
Jul 27, 2018