Category Archives: Canada
HBC should accept unsolicited $4.5B offer for German real estate: investor
TORONTO - An activist investor wants Hudson’s Bay Co. to “seriously consider” a bid it values at $4.49 billion for the Canadian retailer’s German department store chain and oth...
Nov 01, 2017
Florida governor offers no transfer hope for Canadian jailed 31 years
TORONTO - The governor of Florida offered no glimmer of hope on Wednesday to family and supporters of a Canadian man who wants to be transferred to Canada after 31 years in prison in the Sunshine Stat...
Nov 01, 2017
New David Suzuki Foundation CEO ready to seek legal right to healthy environment
VANCOUVER - A former official with an international humanitarian group is the new chief executive officer of the David Suzuki Foundation. Stephen Cornish says he is honoured to play a part in what he ...
Nov 01, 2017
Family testifies about pain of searching 24 years for missing Aboriginal woman
MEMBERTOU, N.S. - The 78-year-old Mi’kmaq elder cradles the grainy photo of his lost daughter laminated on his smart phone - a reminder of his hope to find her one day. It’s black and whit...
Nov 01, 2017
Watchdog's bread price fixing probe 'shocking' and 'bizarre,' analysts say
TORONTO - Allegations of price fixing in the bread aisles of major grocers are “shocking” and “bizarre,” analysts said Wednesday as more companies came forward to reveal they a...
Nov 01, 2017
Floating trash bin installed in Halifax, making its Canadian debut
HALIFAX - An innovative device that cleans trash from the surface of the ocean has been installed at a yacht club in Halifax. The makers of the V5 Seabin say it was placed in the water at the Royal No...
Nov 01, 2017
Nova Scotia 'failing' on environmental project monitoring, auditor general says
HALIFAX - Nova Scotians should be concerned that the provincial government does not monitor many industrial projects to ensure they comply with their environmental terms, Auditor General Michael Picku...
Nov 01, 2017
Only 5% of Canadian tech companies have female chief executives: report
TORONTO - A new report says just five per cent of Canadian technology companies have a female founder and a similar fraction have a woman as CEO, figures which suggest the industry’s gender dive...
Nov 01, 2017
3 dead in fiery highway pileup that sent drivers running for their lives
COOKSTOWN, Ont. - Three people have been killed in a multi-vehicle pileup that sent a wave of fuel and flames rushing down a highway north of Toronto, prompting motorists to run for their lives, polic...
Nov 01, 2017
Missing, murdered inquiry calls for creation of national police task force
OTTAWA - The federal government needs to set up a national police task force to investigate missing and murdered Indigenous women, commissioners heading a much-maligned inquiry into the crisis urged W...
Nov 01, 2017