Category Archives: Canada
March home sales volume plunges 22.7%, national average price down 10.4%: CREA
TORONTO - The most-affordable segments of Canada’s housing market are seeing the biggest price hikes as recent changes to mortgage regulations fuel demand for lower-priced homes such as condomin...
Apr 13, 2018
N.S. lobbyist registrar asks Chretien about meeting with premier, minister
HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia official has sent a letter to Jean Chretien asking him whether he lobbied the premier regarding a container port proposal in Cape Breton - but there’s no requirement the ...
Apr 13, 2018
Quakes shake N.B. village again: 'Sounded like the hot water tank exploded'
MCADAM, N.B. - Two years after a mysterious “swarm” of earthquakes rattled homes and nerves in a New Brunswick village, they’ve started up again. Earthquakes Canada has recorded 22 e...
Apr 13, 2018
In the news today, April 13
Five stories in the news for Friday, April 13 --- FUNERALS CONTINUE FOR HUMBOLDT CRASH VICTIMS Family and friends will gather today for the funerals of three of the 16 people who died as a result of t...
Apr 13, 2018
Trudeau talks trade with Mexican president ahead of meeting with Pence in Peru
LIMA, Peru - Two of the three political leaders with the most at stake at the NAFTA table huddled Friday behind closed doors, their most senior trade lieutenants alongside, in hopes of unlocking a mut...
Apr 13, 2018
Three funerals for victims of Saskatchewan hockey bus crash today
HUMBOLDT, Sask. - Family and friends are to gather today for the funerals of three people who died as a result of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team bus crash. Forward Jacob Leicht, who was 19, is to be...
Apr 13, 2018
'He was a gift:' Broncos stats keeper remembered for math, memory, kindness
HUMBOLDT, Sask. - Brody Hinz went to church every Sunday. The 18-year-old competed in bowling and floor hockey with the Special Olympics. And, with a knack for math and an exceptional memory, he compi...
Apr 13, 2018
Canadian online pharmacy fined $34 million by U.S. court for illegal imports
HELENA, Mont. - An online pharmacy that bills itself as Canada’s largest was fined $34 million Friday for importing counterfeit cancer drugs and other unapproved pharmaceuticals into the United ...
Apr 13, 2018
Cosby's chief accuser says she wants justice for sex assault
NORRISTOWN, Pa. - Bill Cosby’s chief accuser took the witness stand Friday at his sexual assault retrial, declaring for a second jury that he knocked her out her with three blue pills and then s...
Apr 12, 2018
Ottawa probing Tim Hortons franchisee claims RBI failing to honour commitments
The federal government is looking into concerns raised by a dissident group of Tim Hortons franchisees about the potential violation of terms Ottawa placed on a deal that saw Canada’s most iconi...
Apr 12, 2018