Category Archives: Canada
Expert panel says government must go beyond lip service on youth jobs
OTTAWA - The federal Liberals should overhaul the government’s summer jobs program to help young people who aren’t in school find work and do so at any time of the year, a new report says....
Jun 02, 2017
McKenna 'deeply disappointed' in U.S. decision to pull out of Paris
OTTAWA - President Donald Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris climate-change agreement is disappointing, but the world is marching inexorably towards a greener future with or without the U...
Jun 02, 2017
RCMP charge Ontario man who allegedly tried to import fentanyl patches
LONDON, Ont. - The Mounties say an Ontario man is charged with allegedly trying import the deadly opioid fentanyl. They say the 56-year-old London, Ont.-area man was arrested on Thursday and charged w...
Jun 02, 2017
The Monday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Monday, June 5 --- CONDOLENCES FOR CANADIAN TERROR VICTIM: Messages of sorrow and condolence have been pouring in following the death of a Canadian woman in Saturday&...
Jun 02, 2017
No sanctions for 43 of 45 Home Capital brokers and agents, Ontario regulator says
TORONTO - An Ontario regulator says it will not be disciplining 43 of the 45 mortgage brokers and agents that mortgage lender Home Capital cut ties with over allegations they falsified loan applicatio...
Jun 02, 2017
Canada's softwood industry and Thursday's support package, by the numbers
OTTAWA - The federal government announced a support package Thursday worth $867 million to help the lumber industry cope with and adjust to the impact of U.S. tariffs on Canadian softwood. That packag...
Jun 02, 2017
Pizza oven affected Montreal air quality readings, report says
Montrealers can breathe a sigh of relief to learn their air is less polluted than previously thought - due in part to a pizza oven that was skewing air quality readings. An environmental report releas...
Jun 02, 2017
Man, 87, charged after SUV hits school bus, sending 10 students to hospital
AMHERST, N.S. - Ten Nova Scotia schoolchildren received minor injuries when their school bus collided with an SUV en route to a field trip Thursday. Amherst police said the SUV driver, an 87-year-old ...
Jun 02, 2017
No new fighter jet talks amid Boeing-Bombardier spat, say Liberals
OTTAWA - Despite its trade spat with Boeing, the federal government says it isn’t talking to other companies about replacing some of its aging CF-18 jet fighters. Steve MacKinnon, the parliament...
Jun 02, 2017
Federal housing agency beefing up ability to detect mortgage fraud, CEO says
TORONTO - Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. is beefing up its ability to detect patterns that may indicate mortgage fraud after being directed to do so by the federal government, the agency’s pr...
Jun 02, 2017