Category Archives: Canada
Heavy rain likely to cause flooding in Central and Eastern Canada
Persistent, steady rains soaking swaths of Central and Eastern Canada that have already endured record precipitation levels threatened to trigger widespread flooding Friday and put residents and gover...
May 05, 2017
Jobless rate falls to 6.5% but Canadian wages see weakest growth since 1997
OTTAWA - The unemployment rate fell last month to its lowest level since the start of the last major recession, but details within Statistics Canada’s latest labour report - including a record-l...
May 05, 2017
How one of Canada's busiest ERs made progress against overcrowding
Five times a day, senior managers at Toronto’s North York General get alerts on the ever-rising tide of patients arriving at the hospital’s emergency department. The updates are colour-cod...
May 05, 2017
N.S. police chief suspended with pay after being charged with sexual assault
BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - A police chief in Nova Scotia has been suspended with pay for 60 days after being charged with sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl. The police commission in Bridgewater passed a...
May 05, 2017
Nova Scotia premier commits $34 million to mental health services, clinicians
HALIFAX - In a province where it can take months to see a mental-health clinician, Keith MacIsaac wanted to let Premier Stephen McNeil know how facilities such as Halifax-based Laing House are vital t...
May 05, 2017
Handle unsolicited, private infrastructure proposals with care, feds advised
OTTAWA - An internal federal document is raising red flags for Ottawa over unsolicited, non-government proposals for infrastructure projects. The warning comes as the Trudeau government designs a new ...
May 05, 2017