Category Archives: Canada
Ex-PQ leader Andre Boisclair fined $2,000 and loses licence for impaired driving
QUEBEC - Former Parti Quebecois leader Andre Boisclair was fined $2,000 and had his licence suspended for a year Thursday after pleading guilty to impaired driving, refusal to obey an order and obstru...
Feb 15, 2018
Feds names five 'superclusters' that will share $950M in government cash
OTTAWA - The federal government named the five winning bids Thursday of its high-tech “superclusters” sweepstakes that will divvy up $950 million of public funding in hope of stoking econo...
Feb 15, 2018
Former Ontario Tory leader Patrick Brown says he's suing CTV News
TORONTO - Former Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown says he is suing CTV News over its reporting of what he alleges are false accusations of sexual misconduct. Brown said in a Faceb...
Feb 15, 2018
Canada to rejoin NATO AWACS program, defence minister confirms
OTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says Canada will rejoin NATO’s airborne warning and control system, a program which the Harper government abandoned. Speaking in a conference call from Br...
Feb 15, 2018
Plan for reform to medical inadmissibility policy coming in April: Hussen
OTTAWA - Next steps for Canada’s policy on taking medical conditions into account when accepting or rejecting permanent residents will be laid out by mid-April, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen...
Feb 15, 2018
Westons' Choice Properties to create Canada's largest REIT, buys rival for $3.9B
TORONTO - The Weston family is poised to create Canada’s largest real estate investment trust through a $3.9-billion deal for its publicly traded Choice Properties REIT to buy Canadian Real Esta...
Feb 15, 2018
Home sales fall across Canada to reach their lowest level in 3 years: CREA
A flood of buyers and sellers looking to close deals late last year ahead of looming tighter mortgage rules resulted in a 14.5 per cent “payback” drop in home sales between December and Ja...
Feb 15, 2018
Shaw president says voluntary departure of 3,300 employees is a 'good outcome'
TORONTO - The departure of one-quarter of Shaw Communications Inc.’s workforce will be manageable -and mitigated by a technology-driven push toward customer self-service - even though the 3,300 ...
Feb 15, 2018
CP NewsAlert: Canada wins silver in luge relay
PYEONGCHANG, Korea, Republic Of - Canada has earned its second Olympic luge medal, finishing second in the team relay at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The team of singles sliders Alex Gough an...
Feb 15, 2018
CP NewsAlert: Canadian speedskater Bloemen wins gold in men's 10,000 metres
GANGNEUNG,, Korea, Republic Of - Calgary speedskater Ted-Jen Bloemen has won the gold medal in the men’s 10,000 metres at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Bloemen, the world record holder in the...
Feb 15, 2018