Category Archives: Canada
Tracking of journalist highlights need for guidance to courts: privacy czar
OTTAWA - Police surveillance of a Montreal journalist’s smartphone suggests a need for clearer federal guidance to the courts, Canada’s privacy czar says. Parliament has a role to pla...
Nov 01, 2016
Attempt to avert potential N.S. teachers strike falls apart over 'preconditions'
HALIFAX - An attempt to avert a potential teachers strike in Nova Scotia hit a dead end after the government and union couldn’t agree on terms for conciliation by the Tuesday deadline. The conci...
Nov 01, 2016
TD Bank raises prime rate for variable-rate mortgages to 2.85 per cent
TORONTO - TD Bank (TSX:TD) raised the interest rate it charges customers with variable-rate mortgages amid the changes to the mortgage insurance rules announced by Ottawa last month. The big Canadian ...
Nov 01, 2016
Ontario police probe several incidents involving trick or treaters on Halloween
A number of police forces across Ontario are investigating incidents which dampened the fun for certain trick or treaters on Halloween. Police laid charges against one man for allegedly throwing firec...
Nov 01, 2016
Canadians door knock in U.S., but outsiders barred from stumping in Canada
TORONTO - A group of Canadian lawyers is heading south this week to stump for Hillary Clinton ahead of the U.S. presidential election - an activity that would be illegal if Americans tried the sa...
Nov 01, 2016
More than $1.5B in Canadian auto investments will reverse fortunes, Unifor says
TORONTO - The three big North American automakers have committed to investing more than $1.5 billion in their Canadian operations as a result of contract talks with their unionized workers, ...
Nov 01, 2016
Trinity Western wins legal victory in fight to open Christian law school
VANCOUVER - A decisive legal victory in British Columbia has put an evangelical Christian university one step closer in its bid to secure recognition for its proposed law school. The Appeal Court...
Nov 01, 2016
Police say economic downturn tied to increasing domestic abuse in Calgary
CALGARY - Police say domestic violence in Calgary is on the rise at least partially as a result of a severe economic downturn that has cost thousands of jobs in the oil and gas industry. Fig...
Nov 01, 2016
LGBTQ 'purged' from military, public service jobs file class-action lawsuits
OTTAWA - Todd Ross, 47, came out as gay to a stranger. It was no ordinary stranger, either, but a military interrogator grilling him about his sexual orientation, with Ross strapped to a polygrap...
Nov 01, 2016
Housing and debt risks best addressed by government; rates blunt tool: Poloz
VANCOUVER - Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz says risks from household debt and the housing market will be better addressed by the government’s recent policy moves, not by adjusti...
Nov 01, 2016