Category Archives: Canada
Ontario spending $85M to clean up mercury in two First Nation communities
TORONTO - Ontario is spending an additional $85 million to clean up a mercury-contaminated river that has plagued two First Nation communities for half a century. Environment Minister Glen Murray says...
Jun 27, 2017
The Tuesday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, June 27 --- LIBERALS INHERITED $18B BUDGET DEFICIT FLOOR, TRUDEAU SAYS: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is arguing that his government has been sticking to its...
Jun 27, 2017
Dress Marilyn Monroe wore to serenade JFK on display in rural Saskatchewan
The dress that Marilyn Monroe was famously stitched into before she sang Happy Birthday to John F. Kennedy in 1962 is making what’s believed to be its Canadian debut in rural Saskatchewan. The s...
Jun 27, 2017
Alaska salutes black soldiers' work on highway connecting state with Canada
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Leonard Larkins and nearly 4,000 other segregated black soldiers helped build a highway across Alaska and Canada during the Second World War, a contribution largely ignored for dec...
Jun 27, 2017
Royal Bank to repay investors $21.8M for mistakenly charged investment fees
TORONTO - The Royal Bank of Canada (TSX:RY) has agreed to a deal with Ontario’s securities watchdog to repay $21.8 million to clients who were mistakenly charged some investment fees. The Ontari...
Jun 27, 2017
Trudeau appoints his first climate change ambassador with revamped mandate
OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has tapped a long-time Canadian diplomat to step into a revamped role of Canada’s ambassador for climate change. Canada hasn’t had such an ambassador...
Jun 27, 2017
Ex-customs agent sentenced to 11 years in Quebec for role in cocaine case
SAINT-JEAN-SUR-RICHELIEU, Que. - A former customs agent has been given an 11-year prison term for turning a blind eye to the importation of 182 kilograms of cocaine into Canada. A Quebec judge sentenc...
Jun 27, 2017
Delay rejected in lawsuit challenging solitary confinement on charter grounds
VANCOUVER - A leading civil liberties group says a judge has denied a request to delay a lawsuit that challenges the use of indefinite solitary confinement in federal prisons. The Attorney General of ...
Jun 27, 2017
Health Canada allows oral and nasal use of drugs at 2 B.C. consumption sites
VANCOUVER - Drug users at supervised consumption sites is Surrey, B.C., have been allowed to use substances orally and nasally, not just by injection, in the first such exemption approved by Health Ca...
Jun 27, 2017
E. coli outbreak linked to flour appears over, but product recalls continue
The Public Health Agency of Canada has wound down its investigation into an outbreak of E. coli linked to flour produced by Ardent Mills after people across the country became ill. But the Canadian Fo...
Jun 27, 2017