Category Archives: Canada

Conservatives halt all-night voting marathon, vow to resume fight next week
OTTAWA - The Conservatives vowed Friday to employ new tactics next week to force testimony from Justin Trudeau’s national security adviser over the prime minister’s recent trip to India. T...
Mar 23, 2018

Mom, two teens found slain in Ajax, Ont., were stabbed, strangled, police say
TORONTO - Two of three members of a family killed at their suburban Ontario home last week were stabbed while the third was strangled, according to autopsy results released by police on Friday. The au...
Mar 23, 2018

Green Party leader, NDP MP arrested at anti-pipeline protest in B.C.
BURNABY, B.C. - Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and a New Democrat MP were arrested Friday at a protest against Kinder Morgan’s expansion of the Trans Mountain pipeline in British Columbia. May...
Mar 23, 2018

Black janitors allege racial discrimination, plan to file human rights complaint
HALIFAX - Seven black janitors being laid off from their cleaning jobs at a Halifax office building are accusing the property manager and an incoming contractor of racial discrimination. The unionized...
Mar 23, 2018

Stingray hires former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre as special adviser
MONTREAL - Former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre has been hired as a special adviser by digital media company Stingray. Montreal-based Stingray provides multiplatform music, video and digital services. ...
Mar 23, 2018

Supreme Court rules former Stephen Harper aide guilty of influence peddling
OTTAWA - Canada’s highest court has upheld an influence peddling conviction against a one-time senior aide to former prime minister Stephen Harper. Bruce Carson’s case will now be sent bac...
Mar 23, 2018

Conservation group concerned about decline in capelin abundance in N.L.
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A national conservation organization said Friday it is “deeply concerned” about a 70 per cent decline in capelin abundance over the last two years in Newfoundland ...
Mar 23, 2018

Government pledges to eliminate tuberculosis in the North by 2030
OTTAWA - By 2030, tuberculosis will be a thing of the past in Canada’s North, the federal government promised Friday - part of a Liberal plan to battle a disease whose disproportionate impact am...
Mar 23, 2018
Here's a list February inflation rates for Canadian provinces, territories
OTTAWA - Canada’s national annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in February, Statistics Canada says. Here’s what happened in the provinces (previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland an...
Mar 23, 2018
Here's a list of February inflation rates for selected Canadian cities
OTTAWA - Canada’s national annual inflation rate was 2.2 per cent in February, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctu...
Mar 23, 2018