Category Archives: Canada
Montreal police seek potential witness in case of missing 10-year-old boy
Montreal police said Friday they are looking to speak with a woman who was in the same park where a 10-year-old boy was last seen before he went missing last March. Police don’t consider the wom...
Jun 15, 2018
Ontario will scrap cap and trade, challenge Ottawa's carbon tax: Doug Ford
TORONTO - Doug Ford said Friday he will scrap Ontario’s cap-and-trade system and fight a federal carbon tax as soon as his Progressive Conservative cabinet is sworn in later this month because t...
Jun 15, 2018
CREA cuts home sales forecast, May sales down 16.2% compared with year ago
The Canadian Real Estate Association is now expecting an even bigger decline in home sales this year as the latest statistics showed the crucial spring homebuying season came to a lacklustre end in Ma...
Jun 15, 2018
Toronto playground shooting leaves community stunned, mayor vows action
TORONTO - A close-knit Toronto community was questioning the safety they once took for granted as police searched Friday for a man who sprayed bullets into a local park, injuring two young sisters as ...
Jun 15, 2018
U.S. not trying to get Canada to end supply management: agriculture secretary
MIDGELL, P.E.I. - U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and Canada’s Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay emerged from a meeting in a Prince Edward Island barn Friday appearing united on tra...
Jun 15, 2018
In the news today, June 15
Five stories in the news for Friday, June 15 --- HIGH COURT TO RULE ON RELIGIOUS LAW SCHOOL Lawyers, religious groups and private universities are awaiting today’s landmark Supreme Court of Cana...
Jun 15, 2018
Americans reach across the border, urge Canadians to ignore Trump
Usually, it’s Canadians who are quick to say sorry. But United States President Donald Trump’s recent bashing of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has prompted some Americans to reach over the...
Jun 15, 2018
Canadian soccer fans descend on bars and restaurants to watch World Cup
Canadian soccer fans descended on bars and restaurants across the country as a full slate of World Cup matches got underway Friday. The international tournament that occurs every four years has long p...
Jun 15, 2018
Top court affirms sexual identity protections in Christian law school decisions
OTTAWA - Requiring a person to behave contrary to their sexual identity is “degrading and disrespectful,” the Supreme Court of Canada said Friday in ruling that law societies have the righ...
Jun 15, 2018
Ex-Tory Senate leader blasts former colleagues for gutting impaired driving bill
OTTAWA - A former leader of the Conservatives in the Senate is blasting her erstwhile colleagues for spearheading a move to gut a bill aimed at cracking down on impaired driving. Marjory LeBreton, who...
Jun 15, 2018