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Canada schools evacuated after bomb threat

Canada September 22, 2016 at 5:41 am 0 comments

Toronto, More than 19,000 students on the small Canadian province of Prince Edward Island have been evacuated because of a “potential threat.” The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said today students at more than 60 English language and French language schools are being taken to safe locations by staff outside theRead More

Global Affairs ‘aware’ of reports Canadian kidnapped in Libya

Global Affairs ‘aware’ of reports Canadian kidnapped in Libya

Canada September 20, 2016 at 6:43 pm 0 comments

OTTAWA — Global Affairs Canada says it is aware of “the troubling, yet unconfirmed” report of the abduction of a Canadian citizen in Libya. Local government officials in the southern city of Ghat say three foreign engineers, who worked for an Italian construction company, were abducted by unidentified assailants earlyRead More

Pride Toronto issues apology for ‘history of anti-blackness’

Pride Toronto issues apology for ‘history of anti-blackness’

Canada September 20, 2016 at 6:43 pm 0 comments

Toronto:- Pride Toronto is apologizing for allowing a “history of anti-blackness and repeated marginalization of the marginalized” within its community to continue and is vowing to demonstrate progress on “each and every item” that was included in a list of demands made by protesters with the Toronto chapter of BlackRead More

Brampton crash leaves one person with life-threatening injuries: police

Canada September 20, 2016 at 6:42 pm 0 comments

Brampton :- One person has been rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries and another is currently in custody following a two-vehicle crash in Brampton late Monday evening. It happened at Ebenezer and The Gore roads shortly before 8 p.m. The circumstances surrounding the crash – which caused one of theRead More

Federal government prepared to impose carbon price on provinces: McKenna

Federal government prepared to impose carbon price on provinces: McKenna

Canada September 19, 2016 at 1:37 pm 0 comments

OTTAWA – Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says the federal government is prepared to impose a price on carbon on any province that can’t come up with their own, or a cap and trade system. The minister’s comments sparked the ire of at least one premier, Saskatchewan’s Brad Wall. McKenna wasRead More

Autoworker union still in talks with GM as contract expiration looms

Autoworker union still in talks with GM as contract expiration looms

Canada September 19, 2016 at 1:37 pm 0 comments

TORONTO – A spokeswoman for Unifor says there has been some progress in the union’s negotiations with General Motors. The union’s contract with the Detroit Three automakers — GM, Ford and Chrysler — expires Monday night, and the union has set its sights on GM as it tries to secureRead More

Parliament to resume after 12-week summer break

Parliament to resume after 12-week summer break

Canada September 19, 2016 at 1:36 pm 0 comments

OTTAWA — Now for the hard part. After 10 months of a prolonged honeymoon, consultations on dozens of difficult issues and soaring rhetoric that suggested anything is possible, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government faces a fall full of hard choices that will inevitably disappoint some of the prime minister’s fans. TheRead More

Police arrest man found in B.C. airport with loaded rifle

Canada September 19, 2016 at 1:35 pm 0 comments

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. – Police in Abbotsford, B.C., say a man has been arrested after being found in an airport washroom with a loaded rifle. Const. Ian MacDonald with the Abbotsford Police Department says the man had an interaction with staff at a car rental kiosk that caused airport staff toRead More

T.O. police want body cams for all frontline officers

T.O. police want body cams for all frontline officers

Canada September 16, 2016 at 3:55 pm 0 comments

Toronto:– Toronto police are asking for approval to outfit all frontline officers with body-worn cameras, despite reporting major issues after analyzing its year-long pilot project. The request to the police board comes despite the steep cost of the proposed program, which the report estimates would reach $85 million over 10Read More

Muskoka residents launch $900-M suit over flooding

Muskoka residents launch $900-M suit over flooding

Canada September 16, 2016 at 3:47 pm 0 comments

TORONTO — Residents, cottage and business owners on some of the biggest lakes in Muskoka are launching a $900-million class-action suit against the Ontario government because of flooding caused by high water levels. People living on Lakes Muskoka, Lake Joseph and Lake Rosseau say they suffered extensive damage during thisRead More