Category Archives: Canada
Canadian hyperloop company says governments need to support innovation
A Canadian hyperloop company is threatening to relocate its headquarters to Europe unless it secures political support at home for its technology that would transport goods and passengers through tube...
Jun 28, 2018
New Brunswick set for cannabis retail but first year sales less than forecast
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick says it will be ready for cannabis sales when it becomes legal in October - but the delay from the original July startup will cost the province millions. Finance Minister C...
Jun 28, 2018
Canadians dodged paying feds up to $3B in taxes on foreign income: CRA
OTTAWA - Canadians dodged paying Ottawa somewhere between $800 million and $3 billion worth of taxes on foreign personal income in 2014, says a new federal estimate released Thursday. The study by the...
Jun 28, 2018
Mike Duffy lawyers raise spectre of past scandal in bid to sue Senate
OTTAWA - Sen. Mike Duffy’s lawyers recalled the political scandal surrounding his expense claims in a bid Thursday to keep the Senate in the crosshairs of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over his ...
Jun 28, 2018
Toronto gallery to unveil cross-cultural Canadian and Indigenous art centre
TORONTO - The curatorial team tasked with re-envisioning the Art Gallery of Ontario’s permanent collection of Canadian and Indigenous works says the overhaul signals a creative culture shift for...
Jun 28, 2018
Ford becomes Ontario premier Friday, but work on key promises already underway
TORONTO - Though he officially takes up the premier’s mantle on Friday, Doug Ford has already set the wheels in motion for several of his plans for Ontario - and one expert predicts the Progress...
Jun 28, 2018
Crown seeks prison time for disgraced ex-Quebec construction mogul Tony Accurso
LAVAL, Que. - One-time Quebec construction mogul Tony Accurso should receive a five-year prison term and be ordered to pay $1.6 million, the Crown prosecutor said Thursday. Accurso’s lawyer, how...
Jun 28, 2018
Feds learned by accident of Harper's plans to visit White House next week
OTTAWA - The Trudeau government only found out by accident that former prime minister Stephen Harper was planning to visit the White House next week in the midst of a looming trade war between Canada ...
Jun 28, 2018
Quebec man charged in weekend slaying of landlord, 71, near Montreal
LAVAL, Que. - A Quebec man has been charged with second-degree murder in the slaying of a 71-year-old woman over the weekend. Christophe Oliviera was charged Thursday, hours after his arrest. A police...
Jun 28, 2018
In the news today, June 28
Five stories in the news for Thursday, June 28 --- NAVDEEP BAINS: FIRST LIBERAL CANDIDATE FOR 2019 The Liberals have nominated their first candidate for next year’s federal election. At a Toront...
Jun 28, 2018