Category Archives: Canada
Number of foreign homebuyers up slightly in Metro Vancouver
VICTORIA - The latest property transfer data released by the British Columbia government shows the percentage of sales involving foreign nationals in Metro Vancouver inched up between April and Septem...
Oct 31, 2017
Dad of missing woman says police took DNA to test against B.C. farm remains
VANCOUVER - The father of a missing woman says police told him his DNA would be tested against remains found on a farm in British Columbia that is the subject of a large-scale search. Darcy Genereaux ...
Oct 31, 2017
Conservatives raise most money in third quarter, but Liberals narrow the gap
OTTAWA - The Conservatives continued to raise more money than any other federal party during the third quarter of the year but the ruling Liberals closed the gap somewhat. According to financial retur...
Oct 31, 2017
B.C. premier says Site C could end up in Supreme Court over Indigenous rights
VICTORIA - Premier John Horgan says British Columbia’s $8.8 billion Site C dam project could face ongoing legal battles over Indigenous rights and may eventually end up in the Supreme Court of C...
Oct 31, 2017
Watchdog raids offices of grocery retailers in price-fixing probe
TORONTO - The Competition Bureau says it has raided the offices of certain companies in a criminal investigation tied to alleged price fixing following statements released by some of the country’...
Oct 31, 2017
Man captured on video in racist rant in Abbotsford, B.C., is sentenced
ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Court records say a British Columbia man has been handed a two-month conditional sentence plus one year probation for assault in connection with a video of a racist rant that went v...
Oct 31, 2017
5 things to know about spat between Guy Ouellette and anti-corruption unit
MONTREAL - Guy Ouellette, a member of the Quebec legislature since 2007, is at the heart of a complicated dispute with UPAC, the province’s anti-corruption unit, which arrested him Oct. 25 and t...
Oct 31, 2017
Canadian prisoner in China has been re-educated, sentence cut: party official
OTTAWA - A Canadian imprisoned in China for more than a decade had his life sentenced reduced because he took part in a re-education program, a top Chinese Communist party official said Tuesday. Husey...
Oct 31, 2017
Saskatchewan proposes lawsuits should be allowed if intimate images shared
REGINA - Saskatchewan Justice Minister Don Morgan has introduced a bill that would allow people to sue for compensation if their intimate images have been shared without their permission. A victim wou...
Oct 31, 2017
The Tuesday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Oct. 31 --- FEDS DEFEND INFRASTRUCTURE SPENDING DELAY: Opposition parties say a plan to delay more than $2 billion worth of federal infrastructure spending p...
Oct 31, 2017