Category Archives: Canada
Foreign home purchases in Metro Vancouver are back to provincial average
VICTORIA - About three per cent of residential real estate transactions last month in Metro Vancouver involved foreign buyers, a decline of more than 10 percentage points since the B.C....
Nov 29, 2016
Police looking for suspect in alleged sexual assault outside stadium of Grey Cup game
TORONTO - Police are looking for a man they allege sexually assaulted a 32-year-old woman outside the stadium after Sunday’s Grey Cup in Toronto. Toronto police say the incident occurred around ...
Nov 29, 2016
Alberta RCMP nab suspect in bank robbery attempt using tanker truck
CROSSFIELD, Alta. - RCMP in southern Alberta have arrested a suspect after someone tried to break into a bank by driving a large tanker truck into it. Mounties from the Airdrie rural detachm...
Nov 29, 2016
Study to test oral cannabis treatment in kids with severe epilepsy
TORONTO - Researchers at Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children are poised to begin a clinical trial using cannabis extracts to treat children with severe epilepsy whose s...
Nov 29, 2016

Downie offers support for special 'Legacy Room' project aimed at reconciliation
HALIFAX - Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie has formed a partnership with a prominent aboriginal leader to encourage corporate Canada to do more to promote dialogue and reconcili...
Nov 29, 2016
Higher tax revenues help boost B.C.'s bottom line
VICTORIA - British Columbia’s finance minister says a boost in personal income tax revenue contributed to increasing the province’s bottom line for the second quarter. Mike ...
Nov 29, 2016
QuickFacts: What you need to know about Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain project
CALGARY - A quick look at the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project proposed by Kinder Morgan (NYSE:KMI): Estimated Cost: $6.8 billion Route: 1,150 kilometres between Strathcona County, ...
Nov 29, 2016
QuickFacts: What you need to know about Enbridge's Northern Gateway project
CALGARY - A quick look at the Northern Gateway project proposed by Enbridge (TSX:ENB): Estimated Cost: $7.9 billion Route: 1,177 kilometres from Bruderheim, northeast of Edmonton, to a tanker port in ...
Nov 29, 2016
More indigenous leaders sign pledge to fight oilsands and pipelines
WINNIPEG - Some indigenous leaders say they will fight any pipeline projects or other work connected to expanding the oilsands in Alberta. Grand Chief Stewart Phillip, of the Union of British Col...
Nov 29, 2016
Newfoundland teen gets probation for circulating nude photos of schoolmate
CORNER BROOK, N.L. - A 16-year-old Newfoundland boy who circulated nude pictures of a 15-year-old female schoolmate has been sentenced to 18 months’ probation for possession of child pornography...
Nov 29, 2016