Category Archives: Canada
Provinces need more info about marijuana impairment testing technology: B.C.
VANCOUVER - British Columbia has unveiled its plan for regulating recreational marijuana, but the enforcement and testing for drug-impaired driving remain hazy. Solicitor General Mike Farnworth said t...
Apr 27, 2018
Trudeau urged to press G7 leaders for $1.3 billion for girls' education
OTTAWA - A coalition of 30 non-governmental organizations has asked Justin Trudeau to persuade his fellow G7 leaders to commit $1.3 billion over three years to help send millions of the world’s ...
Apr 27, 2018
Canadian markets run by TMX Group close hours early, expected to resume Monday
TORONTO - Canada’s largest stock exchange and other securities markets operated by TMX Group were shut down more than two hours early Friday due to undisclosed technical problems. “We have...
Apr 27, 2018
Quebec student, 9, barred from bus after alleged sexual bullying
MONTREAL - A nine-year-old Quebec boy has been barred from taking a school bus after an alleged sexual bullying incident this week involving two kindergarten students. The Montreal Gazette reported Fr...
Apr 27, 2018
Thunder Bay, Ont., police chief retires after 31 years with force
THUNDER BAY, Ont. - A northern Ontario police chief who oversaw the Thunder Bay force during tensions with Indigenous residents and faced an obstruction of justice trial last year has retired. Thunder...
Apr 27, 2018
World needs to be 'careful' about potential Korean peace deal, says Freeland
OTTAWA - The world needs to be “careful” to ensure historic talks between North and South Korea lead to a nuclear-free peninsula, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Friday as ...
Apr 27, 2018
What we know about the victims of Monday's deadly Toronto van attack
TORONTO - Ten people were killed after a van mounted a sidewalk along a busy street in north Toronto on Monday, ramming into pedestrians in its path. Here’s what we know so far about the victims...
Apr 27, 2018
Abortion pill Mifegymiso prescribed more than 4,000 times since hitting shelves
OTTAWA - Health Canada says Canadian pharmacies doled out 4,253 doses of the abortion pill Mifegymiso in 2017, the first year it was marketed in this country. The information came in a response to a p...
Apr 27, 2018
Mint employee fired after 2 kg of gold found missing from Ottawa facility
OTTAWA - The Royal Canadian Mint says an employee has been fired after about two kilograms of gold was discovered missing from its facility in Ottawa. Spokeswoman Alison Crawford says the gold, worth ...
Apr 27, 2018
Eight women and two men killed in Toronto van attack: coroner
TORONTO - After four days of painstaking “scientific” efforts to identify the victims of a horrific attack in Toronto, authorities released on Friday the names of eight women and two men w...
Apr 27, 2018