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Uber launches food delivery app in Toronto

Uber launches food delivery app in Toronto

Breaking news, Canada December 9, 2015 at 8:23 pm 0 comments

TORONTO — Uber has chosen the streets of Toronto for its latest experiment in food delivery. The mobile app company, which has already shaken up the taxi industry, is now quadrupling the operating hours of its UberEats delivery service in the city and rolling out a much wider menu selectionRead More

Canadian CF-18s still coming home, Trudeau says

Canadian CF-18s still coming home, Trudeau says

Breaking news, Canada, Latest headlines, slider December 8, 2015 at 6:14 am 0 comments

OTTAWA — NATO wants to see Canada play a role in its reconstituted military mission to train Iraqi security forces — an idea the alliance’s secretary general pitched directly to Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion, The Canadian Press has learned. Jens Stoltenberg’s approach, made on the sidelines of last week’sRead More

Liberals to provide more details about plans for missing, murdered aboriginal women inquiry

Liberals to provide more details about plans for missing, murdered aboriginal women inquiry

Breaking news, Canada, Latest headlines December 8, 2015 at 6:13 am 0 comments

OTTAWA — The Liberal government is expected to provide some additional information Tuesday about its long-promised public inquiry into missing and murdered aboriginal women. Status of Women Minister Patty Hajdu admitted Monday the Liberals are in the “very beginning stages” of their work and have no pre-conceived ideas about whatRead More

Duffy trial resumes with testimony from new Senate Speaker George Furey

Duffy trial resumes with testimony from new Senate Speaker George Furey

Breaking news, Canada, Latest headlines, slider December 8, 2015 at 6:12 am 0 comments

OTTAWA — The Senate’s spending rules didn’t need to spell out every detail of what was allowed to be expensed because much of it was “self-explanatory” and “intuitive” for senators, the upper chamber’s new Speaker told court Monday. Two independent auditors — those from Deloitte who were tasked with reviewingRead More

Man, 18, charged with taking pellet gun to Hamilton college

Man, 18, charged with taking pellet gun to Hamilton college

Breaking news, Canada, Latest headlines December 8, 2015 at 6:11 am 0 comments

HAMILTON — Police say an 18-year-old man is facing charges after a replica gun was brought to a college in Hamilton. Officers went to Mohawk College on Friday afternoon after receiving a tip that a man was believed to be in possession of a handgun. Investigators say a man wasRead More

Ontario, Manitoba, Quebec sign deal to link cap-and-trade systems

Ontario, Manitoba, Quebec sign deal to link cap-and-trade systems

Breaking news, Canada, Latest headlines December 7, 2015 at 6:02 pm 0 comments

PARIS — Manitoba has signed an agreement with Ontario and Quebec, formalizing the intent of all three provinces to link their cap-and-trade systems. The premiers of the three provinces signed a memorandum of understanding today at the climate change conference in Paris. Under the Western Climate Initiative, the three provinces’Read More

Canada’s environment minister named as one of 14 facilitators at COP21

Canada’s environment minister named as one of 14 facilitators at COP21

Breaking news, Canada, Latest headlines December 7, 2015 at 6:01 pm 0 comments

PARIS – Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna has been named to a group of 14 international ministers who will serve as facilitators of the COP21 climate conference in Paris. The group was created to assist French Foreign Affairs Minister Laurent Fabius, the conference’s president. A spokesperson for McKenna said theRead More

Loonie falls more than half a cent as oil dips below US$39 a barrel

Loonie falls more than half a cent as oil dips below US$39 a barrel

Canada December 7, 2015 at 6:00 pm 0 comments

TORONTO — The Canadian dollar fell more than half a U.S. cent Monday morning to levels not seen in 11 years as crude oil futures traded below US$39 a barrel. The loonie traded at 74.13 cents U.S. shortly after North American stock markets opened after falling 0.63 cents from Friday’sRead More

Guy Turcotte found guilty of second-degree murder in deaths of his kids

Guy Turcotte found guilty of second-degree murder in deaths of his kids

Canada December 7, 2015 at 6:00 pm 0 comments

SAINT-JEROME, Que. — The mother of two slain children had a sobering thought after their father was found guilty on Sunday of second-degree murder in their stabbing deaths nearly seven years ago. “Tomorrow, I will not wake up with children,” Isabelle Gaston said after a jury convicted Guy Turcotte atRead More

Liberal government’s throne speech promises to legalize, regulate marijuana

Liberal government’s throne speech promises to legalize, regulate marijuana

Canada December 5, 2015 at 7:12 pm 0 comments

OTTAWA — It has taken more than 40 years but the government of Canada is finally formally committing to legalizing marijuana. Gov. Gen. David Johnston delivered the governing priorities of Justin Trudeau’s Liberals in the speech from the throne Friday, including a pledge to “legalize, regulate and restrict access toRead More