Category Archives: Canada
Canadian nurse in Florida preparing for busy few days in Hurricane Irma's wake
HOLLYWOOD, United States - A Canadian nurse now living in Florida is bracing for a busy next few days of caring for the sick and wounded as Hurricane Irma bears down on the U.S. coast. Nancy Teske Wis...
Sep 09, 2017
At The Turn: U.S. golf gear website GlobalGolf.com sets up shop in Canada
OTTAWA - When it comes to winning over Canadian golfers, it helps to know someone. Ed Byman has that covered. Try this on for bona fides: Byman - a former PGA Tour player and veteran of the Canadian T...
Sep 09, 2017
Be wary of 'virtue signalling', push good policy instead, Conservatives told
WINNIPEG - Don’t just oppose. Instead, propose. That’s the political plan ahead for the Conservatives this fall, and there’s a reason Opposition Leader Andrew Scheer is going to repe...
Sep 09, 2017
Controversy in Quebec as more French students choose English college
MONTREAL - Simon Berube loves Quebec, its culture, French language and people, but he and his parents decided the best thing he could do for his future was to enrol in one of the province’s Engl...
Sep 09, 2017
Doug Ford announces he will run for mayor of Toronto in 2018
TORONTO - Former Toronto city councillor Doug Ford says he will be running for mayor in the 2018 municipal election. Ford made the announcement Friday night during his family’s annual Ford Fest ...
Sep 08, 2017
Alberta woman, two sons charged in death of husband who went missing in 2011
TOFIELD, Alta. - RCMP have charged an Alberta woman and two of her sons in the death of her husband who had been missing since 2011. Police say six years ago 49-year-old Miles Naslund was reported mis...
Sep 08, 2017
Equifax data hack attracts attention of class-action lawyers and privacy watchdog
MONTREAL - A large-scale security breach at credit monitoring company Equifax has already attracted the attention of Canadian class-action lawyers and the country’s privacy commissioner as the f...
Sep 08, 2017
Ontario government's marijuana monopoly could weed out craft growers
TORONTO - Ontario’s plan to sell and distribute recreational pot exclusively through a network of government-operated stores could lock in the dominance of the country’s large-scale licens...
Sep 08, 2017
Canadians living in the path of hurricane Irma preparing for the worst
The house belonging to Audrey Foy, a young woman living in Florida who is originally from Quebec, looked like a bunker Friday. It was hard to find her front door as the facade of her home had been boa...
Sep 08, 2017
Details on where the provinces and territories stand on looming pot legalization
With marijuana legalization looming next summer, Ontario has outlined its plan for the sale of weed. Here’s what’s happening in the rest of the country. - Alberta held public consultations...
Sep 08, 2017