Category Archives: Canada
Five stories in the news today, May 10
Five stories in the news for Wednesday, May 10 --- BRITISH COLUMBIA VOTERS ELECT MINORITY GOVERNMENT British Columbia has its first minority government in 65 years with the Green party holding the bal...
May 10, 2017
B.C. limbo: provincial election results in doubt for at least two more weeks
VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s election hangs in the balance with thousands of votes still to be counted, kicking off weeks of speculation and backroom negotiations with the newly influential Gr...
May 10, 2017
John McCain, Jimmy Carter, and Canadian lumber: one's more sympathetic
WASHINGTON - Two historic figures in American politics spoke about the Canada-U.S. softwood lumber dispute this week - one sympathetic to the northern neighbour, and the other less so. The good cop: J...
May 10, 2017
Marijuana to take less than 1 per cent out of multibillion-dollar booze sales: study
MONTREAL - The recreational marijuana industry is expected to take a sip of less than one per cent initially out of annual Canadian alcohol sales once it becomes legal, a new analysis says. The Anders...
May 10, 2017
Deputy Ontario NDP leader Jagmeet Singh to run for federal leadership
OTTAWA - Ontario deputy NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is poised to launch a bid for federal leadership next week, The Canadian Press has learned. Sources familiar with Singh’s plans say he will make ...
May 10, 2017
Canadian Press NewsAlert:Greens win three seats in British Columbia election
VANCOUVER - The Green party had an historic breakthrough in the British Columbia election on Tuesday night, winning three seats. Green Leader Andrew Weaver was re-elected in his riding and will be joi...
May 10, 2017
Canadian Press NewsAlert:Greens double seat count in B.C. election
VANCOUVER - Green Leader Andrew Weaver has been re-elected in his B.C. legislature riding. He will be joined in the house by Adam Olsen, who also took the riding of Saanich North and the Islands for t...
May 09, 2017
Canadian Press NewsAlert:Green candidate wins seat in B.C. legislature
VANCOUVER - The Green party elected a new member to the British Columbia legislature in Tuesday’s election. Adam Olsen, a former interim leader of the party, has taken the riding of Saanich Nort...
May 09, 2017
Police say two people found dead from missing Burnaby, B.C., family
BURNABY, B.C. - Police say two members of a Burnaby, B.C., family reported missing Sunday have been found dead. RCMP said 38-year-old Ming Dong Xu, his wife, 36-year-old Yu Ling Zhang and their four-y...
May 09, 2017
CFIA recalls breaded chicken products due to possible toxin
OTTAWA - Federal health officials say Maple Leaf Foods Inc. (TSX:MFI) is recalling various breaded chicken products because they may contain a toxin produced by Staphylococcus bacteria. The Canadian F...
May 09, 2017