Category Archives: Canada
Workplace sexual harassment discussed at G7 meeting about workplace disruption
MONTREAL - Representatives from the world’s largest industrialized countries agreed that workplace sexual harassment must be addressed to deal with a problem faced by many working women, Canadia...
Mar 28, 2018
Man who hit son with USB cord for eating toast too slowly gets probation
WINDSOR, Ont. - A man who whipped his six-year-old son with a charging cord for eating his toast too slowly has been given a conditional discharge, radio station CKLW reported Wednesday. In sentencing...
Mar 28, 2018
Hydro-Quebec looks to Maine as Massachusetts ends Northern Pass hydro project
MONTREAL - Hydro-Quebec will now need to go through Maine as part of a massive export deal to sell hydropower to Massachusetts. The U.S. state announced Wednesday it was dropping the $1.6 billion Nort...
Mar 28, 2018
Transcript of letter Alexandre Bissonnette read out in Quebec courtroom
QUEBEC - A judge on Wednesday accepted Alexandre Bissonnette’s guilty pleas to six charges of first-degree murder and six of attempted murder in connection with the shooting at a Quebec City mos...
Mar 28, 2018
Barrick Gold founder Peter Munk, a man of lofty global ambitions, dies at age 90
TORONTO - Barrick Gold Corp.’s visionary founder Peter Munk, a man of lofty global ambitions who fulfilled them like few others, died Wednesday at the age of 90. He racked up an impressive serie...
Mar 28, 2018
Violation of trust: Crown wants prison time for Newfoundland cabbie sex assaults
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A Newfoundland cab driver convicted of sexually assaulting two female passengers should serve two to three years in prison, a Crown prosecutor argued Wednesday. Dana Sullivan ...
Mar 28, 2018
Documents show Liberals took eyes ways to tax Netflix like Quebec plans to do
OTTAWA - Federal officials have taken a close look at how the government can make online services like Netflix and Amazon voluntarily collect sales tax, similar to the model Quebec plans to bring in n...
Mar 28, 2018
Survey of Toronto tech firms shows international job applications up
TORONTO - A new survey suggests Toronto-region technology companies saw an increase in international job applicants last year as countries including the U.S. tightened their immigration policies. The ...
Mar 28, 2018
B.C. port hopes to reduce gull poop by attracting eagles to fake tree
John Briant has never grown accustomed to the scent that hundreds of gulls bring to Victoria’s largest port. The general manager of Western Stevedoring, which manages Ogden Point, says it’...
Mar 28, 2018
Burnaby appeal to Supreme Court over pipeline 'showboating:' Alberta premier
CALGARY - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says a decision by the City of Burnaby, B.C., to take its fight over the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expansion to the Supreme Court is showboating. Notley said ...
Mar 28, 2018