Category Archives: Canada
Nova Scotia plans 'modest' start on marijuana sales -- just nine stores
HALIFAX - Cannabis will be sold at only nine Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation stores when the drug is officially legalized in July, the province announced Tuesday. Pot will be sold at four outlets in th...
Jan 30, 2018
Toronto home sales expected to slip, but average prices forecast to climb
TORONTO - The Toronto Real Estate Board expects fewer home sales this year compared with 2017, but the average selling price to creep higher. The board is forecasting total sales between 85,000 and 95...
Jan 30, 2018
Complaints against former RCMP doctors accused of sexual misconduct hit 80
More than 80 complaints have now been received against two former RCMP doctors under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct spanning decades, police in Ontario and Nova Scotia say. Toronto police...
Jan 30, 2018
New Brunswick running 11th straight deficit and increasing net debt
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s Liberal government has released a $9.6 billion budget with the province’s 11th straight deficit and a hefty increase in the net debt. “There is an old a...
Jan 30, 2018
'Halifax is not the garrison town of Edward Cornwallis,' mayor says
Halifax council has voted to immediately remove a statue of Edward Cornwallis from a downtown park amid growing calls across the country to end the reverence of colonial figures as part of reconciliat...
Jan 30, 2018
Complaints against former RCMP doctors accused of sexual misconduct hit 80
More than 80 complaints have now been received against two former RCMP doctors under investigation for alleged sexual misconduct spanning decades, police in Ontario and Nova Scotia say. Toronto police...
Jan 30, 2018
Welcome to the Rock: St. John's Canada's most open city, populism poll suggests
ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Yazan Jabr was totally lost on his very first day in St. John’s, N.L., when he randomly asked a man for directions to get downtown, a 20 minute walk away. “It was ...
Jan 30, 2018
Military cites privacy concerns for slow progress in review of unfounded cases
OTTAWA - Canada’s top military police officer is citing privacy concerns for the fact the Canadian Armed Forces have yet to make good on last year’s promise to revisit more than 160 cases ...
Jan 30, 2018
In the news today, Jan. 30
Five stories in the news for Tuesday, Jan. 30 --- MILITARY YET TO MAKE GOOD ON SEX ASSAULT CASES Canada’s top military police officer is citing privacy for the fact the Canadian Armed Forces hav...
Jan 30, 2018
Emotional first day in trial of farmer accused of killing Indigenous man
BATTLEFORD, Sask. - People are bracing for another emotional day at the trial of a Saskatchewan farmer accused of killing an Indigenous man on his property. There were tears in a Battleford courtroom ...
Jan 30, 2018