Category Archives: Canada
Western University music students to live in retirement home alongside seniors
When Western University graduate Heather Gingerich saw a news segment about an Ohio retirement home where music students lived alongside seniors, she was amazed at the electric atmosphere as the young...
Aug 17, 2017
Canadian U Box It wins u-u-uge trademark battle over American U-Haul
OTTAWA - A family-owned Canadian garbage business is claiming victory over huge American moving company U-Haul International in a David-versus-Goliath battle involving whose U-themed brands deserve tr...
Aug 17, 2017
Teachers knew half of the kids on ill-fated canoe trip had failed swim test:TDSB
TORONTO - Two teachers knew that nearly half of the 32 students they accompanied on an ill-fated canoe trip earlier this summer had failed a required swim test but allowed them to go anyway, the Toron...
Aug 17, 2017
Immigration board to audit process for reviewing long-term detention
TORONTO - The Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada says it will carry out an independent audit of the process used to reassess the long-term detention of permanent residents and foreigners after tw...
Aug 17, 2017
Canadian schools reluctant to embrace later bell times despite mounting research
TORONTO - A wave of international research suggesting delaying high school start times would have health and academic benefits for students has not yet crested in Canada. Several individual boards and...
Aug 17, 2017
Nova Scotia's Liberal government to table budget shelved by election Sept. 26
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s Liberal government will next month re-introduce a budget shelved because of its May 30 election call. The budget will be tabled Sept. 26, five days after the legislature ...
Aug 17, 2017
Pikangikum First Nation to be connected to Ontario power grid by next fall
The federal government announced up to $60 million in funding Thursday to connect a remote northwestern Ontario First Nation to the province’s power grid. Pikangikum First Nation, a community ne...
Aug 17, 2017
Scheer says he won't do interviews with the Rebel, citing editorial direction
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said Thursday he’ll do no further interviews with conservative news outlet the Rebel until it changes its editorial direction, following its coverage o...
Aug 17, 2017
Some New Brunswick lobster fishermen park boats, concerned with low prices
SHEDIAC, N.B. - Some lobster fishermen in eastern New Brunswick tied up their boats and remained onshore Thursday in a protest over the prices they’re getting for lobster. Fishermen in ports suc...
Aug 17, 2017
Figures show nearly 7,000 asylum seekers nabbed at Quebec border over six weeks
LACOLLE, Que. - Almost 7,000 asylum seekers have been intercepted at the Quebec-U.S. border in the last six weeks, authorities said Thursday. The RCMP’s Claude Castonguay said the force intercep...
Aug 17, 2017