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Americans crossing into Canada carrying guns with ‘alarming frequency’

Americans crossing into Canada carrying guns with ‘alarming frequency’

Canada August 8, 2017 at 5:55 pm 0 comments

SAINT JOHN, N.B. — Six Americans have been charged with bringing handguns across the New Brunswick border so far this summer, as a Canadian prosecutor says it’s proving difficult to let otherwise law-abiding people know they can’t bring firearms on vacation. “The offences continue to occur with alarming frequency duringRead More

Oland lawyers to ask New Brunswick court for delay in setting murder trial date

Oland lawyers to ask New Brunswick court for delay in setting murder trial date

Canada August 8, 2017 at 5:54 pm 0 comments

SAINT JOHN, N.B. – Lawyers for Dennis Oland are to appear in a New Brunswick court today for a hearing to set a date for a new second-degree murder trial. It’s expected they’ll ask for more time to prepare, likely bumping the scheduling hearing to Sept. 5. Oland is chargedRead More

Construction to begin Tuesday on 1 of 3 supervised injection sites in Toronto

Canada August 8, 2017 at 5:53 pm 0 comments

Toronto: Construction will begin today on one of three approved supervised injection sites in Toronto. Toronto Public Health spokesperson Lenore Bromley confirmed that construction crews will begin work at the site located inside the Toronto Public Health building on Victoria Street, near Dundas Street. Last summer, Toronto city council approvedRead More

Giller Prize founder Jack Rabinovitch dead at 87

Giller Prize founder Jack Rabinovitch dead at 87

Canada August 7, 2017 at 6:10 pm 0 comments

TORONTO – Jack Rabinovitch, the beloved businessman who created the lucrative and prestigious Scotiabank Giller Prize literary award that boosted the profiles and sales of countless Canadian fiction authors, has died. Rabinovitch died Sunday afternoon in Toronto, his daughter Elana confirmed. He was 87. An obituary posted on the websiteRead More

U.S. dispute over Canadian wine sales restrictions on the table at NAFTA talks

U.S. dispute over Canadian wine sales restrictions on the table at NAFTA talks

Canada August 7, 2017 at 6:09 pm 0 comments

OTTAWA — U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer has an issue with getting agricultural products to Canada, and it might not be the ones you think. “It’s an extraordinary problem for those people who are affected,” Lighthizer said June 22 when he appeared before the House of Representatives ways and meansRead More

Environment Canada confirms second tornado touched down near Huntsville

Environment Canada confirms second tornado touched down near Huntsville

Canada August 7, 2017 at 6:08 pm 0 comments

Huntsville: Environment Canada says it has now confirmed that a second tornado touched down near Huntsville on Friday. The national weather agency previously said the first tornado touched down on the south side of Huntsville shortly before 4 p.m. Friday. Damage was reported to several homes in the area dueRead More

Toronto woman warns others about photos surfacing on image-sharing site

Toronto woman warns others about photos surfacing on image-sharing site

Canada August 7, 2017 at 6:07 pm 0 comments

TORONTO — In the past month, Roxanne messaged more than two dozen Ontario women on Facebook to warn them that their photos had surfaced on the image-sharing site Anon-IB. It’s something the Toronto resident has been doing on and off since she learned four years ago that her own photosRead More

Trudeau paddles kayak on Vancouver Island; meets regional and Indigenous leaders

Trudeau paddles kayak on Vancouver Island; meets regional and Indigenous leaders

Breaking news, Canada, Latest headlines August 5, 2017 at 5:51 pm 0 comments

VICTORIA – Justin Trudeau is scheduled to paddle a kayak today in British Columbia’s coastal waters as he mixes a splash of sightseeing with business gatherings with regional and Indigenous leaders on Vancouver Island. The prime minister will take the kayak voyage at the Gulf Islands National Park Reserve justRead More

Indo-Canadian is Canada’s Consul-General to San Francisco

Indo-Canadian is Canada’s Consul-General to San Francisco

Breaking news, Canada, Latest headlines, slider August 5, 2017 at 5:50 pm 0 comments

Toronto, Aug 5 : Rana Sarkar, an Indo-Canadian who was till recently national director for high growth markets at the Toronto-based multi-national KPMG, has been named by Prime Minister Justin Trudeaus Liberal government as Canadas Consul-General to San Francisco. Simultaneously, Sarkar has also been named a member of the high-profileRead More

Canadian working with Kenya opposition party detained, to be deported

Canadian working with Kenya opposition party detained, to be deported

Canada August 5, 2017 at 5:50 pm 0 comments

NAIROBI, Kenya — A campaign data company says a Canadian working on the opposition party’s campaign was detained in Kenya and is facing deportation. A spokeswoman for Aristotle, Inc. — a political consulting company that provides various services to campaigns, including strategy and data analysis — says the Canadian seniorRead More