Category Archives: Canada
Supreme Court will hear appeal over class action aimed at big electronics firms
OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada will hear two appeals from major electronics companies in a pair of British Columbia class-action suits that allege a global price-fixing conspiracy between 2004 a...
Jun 07, 2018
Quebec City protesters end tense but mainly peaceful demonstration
QUEBEC - Several hundred mainly peaceful protesters filled a heavily protected street of Quebec City on Thursday night, on the eve of a G7 summit that will bring U.S. President Donald Trump to Canada ...
Jun 07, 2018
Third passenger dies following east Ontario bus crash
PRESCOTT, Ont. - Ontario Provincial Police say a third passenger injured in a bus crash in eastern Ontario on Monday has died. The passenger was identified late Thursday as 60-year-old Chinese woman W...
Jun 07, 2018
NewsAlert: Third passenger dies following east Ontario bus crash
PRESCOTT, Ont. - Provincial police say a third passenger injured in a bus crash in eastern Ontario on Monday has died. The passenger is identified as 60-year-old Chinese woman Weiping Lu. Two other pe...
Jun 07, 2018
Wettlaufer tells inquiry lawyers how her crimes could have been prevented
A nurse who preyed on elderly patients in her care told lawyers with an inquiry examining her actions that she wouldn’t have been able to murder eight people if more controls were in place on me...
Jun 07, 2018
Trump calls Trudeau 'indignant' on eve of Canadian G7 summit debut
QUEBEC - Just hours before what’s expected to be a combative Canadian debut at the G7 summit, Donald Trump accused his host Justin Trudeau of being “indignant” in an evening Twitter ...
Jun 07, 2018
Main building at historic Cape Breton inn burns to ground in early morning fire
BADDECK, N.S. - A devastating fire has levelled the main lodge of an historic, much-loved inn on Cape Breton’s Bras d’Or Lakes, even as it spared a unique chapel bankrolled by a Toronto ho...
Jun 07, 2018
Christian retreat for the 'sexually broken' cancelled in New Brunswick
SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A controversial retreat planned for later this summer has been scrapped in the wake of criticism from the LGBTQ community. The Vancouver-based Christian Group Journey Canada was adv...
Jun 07, 2018
Cirque du Soleil among performers for G7 leaders during Charlevoix summit
QUEBEC - World-renowned entertainment troupe Cirque du Soleil will be providing G7 leaders with some diversion Friday night during their annual summit, which is being hosted this year in Quebec’...
Jun 07, 2018
In the news today, June 7
Eight stories in the news for Thursday, June 7 --- ELECTION DAY IN ONTARIO After weeks of attack ads and controversies, Ontarians go to the polls today to elect a new provincial government. With Liber...
Jun 07, 2018