Category Archives: Canada
Health minister favours warnings on cigarettes as feds outline tobacco strategy
MONTREAL - The federal health minister says she’s in favour of putting health warnings directly on individual cigarettes in what she calls a “bold” idea.” The proposed measure ...
May 31, 2018
Religious groups can decide own membership, rules, Supreme Court says
OTTAWA - A Jehovah’s Witness who was expelled from a Calgary congregation cannot take his case to a judge, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled in a decision that affirms the general right of r...
May 31, 2018
Canada's daycare unlikely to be disrupted as obstacles to shakeups persist
Natacha Beim opened her first daycare in 1998 and built it into a franchise business that now boasts 21 locations, with plans to open as many as 10 more centres each year. The founder of Core Educatio...
May 31, 2018
Statistics Canada says the pace of economic growth slowed in first quarter
OTTAWA - Canada’s pace of economic growth slowed in the first quarter to its lowest rate in nearly two years, but the weaker-than-expected data did little to tamp down economists’ predicti...
May 31, 2018
Pipeline assets will attract buyers if feds can complete expansion, experts say
CALGARY - If the federal government manages to overcome strong opposition in British Columbia and complete construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, experts say it will have an asset that...
May 31, 2018
New Brunswick town stakes claim to world's oldest basketball court
ST. STEPHEN, N.B. - For years, it lay hidden under drab blue carpet on the top floor of a non-descript building that housed everything from a printing press and dance hall to a gym and storeroom. But ...
May 31, 2018
Transportation Safety Board to release findings on sunken tugboat off B.C. coast
VANCOUVER - Results are expected today from an investigation into what caused a tugboat to run aground off British Columbia’s coast in October 2016, spilling thousands of litres of fuel into the...
May 31, 2018
Stray, disabled kitten uses Lego wheelchair to scoot around with littermates
SUSSEX, N.B. - A stray kitten that was found in a New Brunswick barn with two broken legs is being given a second chance, thanks to a lot of care - and a Lego wheelchair. Champ was rescued by Cat Resc...
May 31, 2018
In the news today, May 31
Six stories in the news for Thursday, May 31 --- CANADA AWAITS U.S. DECISION ON STEEL-ALUMINUM DUTIES The federal government is waiting to hear from Washington on whether the U.S. will impose punishin...
May 31, 2018
Trump hits back at Trudeau's criticism of 'punitive' U.S. metal tariffs
WASHINGTON - Justin Trudeau drew the ire of Donald Trump late Thursday, after warning of a new turning point in Canada-U.S. relations when the U.S. president made good on a threat to impose crippling ...
May 31, 2018