Category Archives: Canada
Suncor Energy says driverless trucks will eliminate a net 400 positions
CALGARY - About 400 jobs are expected to disappear at Suncor Energy Inc.’s oilsands mines in northern Alberta as it deploys driverless ore-hauling trucks to replace the ones humans operate now. ...
Jan 31, 2018
Female-focused Medieval Times show bound for Toronto this year
TORONTO - After nearly 25 years of entertaining audiences with jousting and a meal with the king, Toronto’s Medieval Times Dinner & Tournament will soon undergo a “sea change” wi...
Jan 31, 2018
Injured veterans ask Supreme Court to hear case on disability pensions
OTTAWA - A group of six disabled veterans wants the Supreme Court of Canada to weigh in on their fight with the federal government over the re-introduction of lifetime pensions for those injured while...
Jan 31, 2018
Insurer must pay $237K in legal costs to elderly woman awarded $20K
TORONTO - An insurance company that played litigation hardball with an elderly car-accident victim has been ordered to pay $237,000 to cover the legal costs she incurred in winning a $20,000 settlemen...
Jan 31, 2018
Boeing waiting for written rationale for Bombardier win to decide next steps
MONTREAL - Aircraft giant Boeing Co. will wait for the U.S. International Trade Commission to publish the reasons for its trade dispute decision favouring Bombardier before deciding next steps, includ...
Jan 31, 2018
Bakers, grocers involved in 16-year price-fixing conspiracy: Competition Bureau
At least $1.50 has been artificially baked into the price of a loaf of bread during a 16-year-long bread price-fixing conspiracy involving the country’s largest bakery wholesalers and grocery re...
Jan 31, 2018
#Metoo movement prompting sexual-assault survivors to break silence to family
It was just this past Christmas that a prickly family conversation about the burgeoning #metoo movement led one Nova Scotia woman to do something she didn’t expect: speak out about her own traum...
Jan 31, 2018
Halifax removes contentious statue of port city's founder, Edward Cornwallis
HALIFAX - Isaiah Bernard always avoided driving by a statue of Halifax’s controversial military founder. For him, it was an obtrusive reminder of Edward Cornwallis’s bloody and barbaric ex...
Jan 31, 2018
Federal transgender inmates to be housed, addressed according to gender identity
OTTAWA - The federal prison system is changing the way it treats transgender inmates, who will now be placed in a men’s or women’s facility based on how they self-identify. Correctional st...
Jan 31, 2018
Confidentiality an issue in whether to release Hehr report; Trudeau
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says confidentiality will be a factor in deciding whether to release the findings of an investigation into allegations of misconduct levelled against Liberal MP ...
Jan 31, 2018