Category Archives: Canada
Trudeau avoids buying the next round during tour of coast guard ship
VANCOUVER - Thirsty sailors hoping that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau could be coaxed into buying a round on Monday were left disappointed. During a tour of a coast guard icebreaker in Vancouver’...
Nov 07, 2016
TSX soars, Dow Jones climbs 370 points as FBI clears Clinton of wrongdoing
TORONTO - Major North American stock markets soared Monday as investors placed their bets on Democrat Hillary Clinton emerging victorious over Republican Donald Trump, on the eve of a historic U.S. pr...
Nov 07, 2016
A checklist for watching the U.S. election: key times, races, issues to watch
WASHINGTON - Key times: First state polls close at 7 p.m. ET, including Georgia and Virginia. That’s followed at 7:30 p.m., with results from the key states of North Carolina and Ohio. At 8 p.m....
Nov 07, 2016
Canadian business warily eyes US election pitfalls while Trudeau preaches calm
OTTAWA - The elephant is grunting and twitching. Pierre Trudeau’s famous analogy of Canada’s precarious place sleeping next to an American leviathan was top of mind Monday on the eve of a ...
Nov 07, 2016
The Monday news briefing: An at-a-glance survey of some top stories
Highlights from the news file for Monday, Nov. 7 ___ BITTER US PRESIDENTIAL RACE EXPOSED DIVISIONS IN AMERICA: Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump blitzed through battleground states Monday in a final bi...
Nov 07, 2016
Canada's oceans get $1.5 billion over five years for marine protection plan
VANCOUVER - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau unveiled a $1.5-billion plan Monday to make Canada a “world leader” in ocean protection after a diesel spill on British Columbia’s central c...
Nov 07, 2016
More Americans set their career sights north of the border
TORONTO - A growing number of Americans are setting their career sights north of the border, according to government and other data, and experts believe that is partly due to the spectre of a Donald T...
Nov 07, 2016
Women in Canadian politics look ahead to possible female U.S. president
OTTAWA - Kim Campbell has made no secret about who she would prefer to see win the U.S. presidential election. The former Progressive Conservative prime minister has been vocal in her distaste for Rep...
Nov 07, 2016
Young Atlantic Canadians shouldn't have to leave home to find jobs: IBM exec
HALIFAX - The thousands of young people graduating from Atlantic Canada’s colleges and universities every year shouldn’t have to look for work outside the region’s borders now that t...
Nov 07, 2016
FSIN chief backs banishment of drug dealers to protect children on reserve
REGINA - The chief of Saskatchewan’s Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations says he supports bands that want to exile criminals. Bobby Cameron, who represents 74 of the province’s Firs...
Nov 07, 2016