Category Archives: Canada
No verdict Friday at Jacques Corriveau fraud trial in Montreal
MONTREAL - Jurors have failed to reach a verdict on their first full day of deliberations at Jacques Corriveau’s fraud trial. The judge who headed the commission into the federal sponsorship sca...
Oct 28, 2016
CIBC to repay $73 million after overcharging clients for 14 years
TORONTO - Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (TSX:CM) has agreed to compensate clients a total of $73.3 million after collecting excess fees for certain mutual funds and investment services over 14 ye...
Oct 28, 2016
Edmonton homeless man returns 96-year-old man's lost wallet: police
Edmonton police are commending a homeless man for restoring a senior’s faith in humanity. Police say two constables were driving in the city’s northeast when they were flagged down by a st...
Oct 28, 2016
A look at the four people who died in the shooting in northern Saskatchewan
Four people were killed and seven wounded in a mass shooting at a school and a home in the northern Saskatchewan community of La Loche on Jan. 22. An 18-year-old, who was 17 at the time, pleaded guilt...
Oct 28, 2016
Feds hope to sell global investors, Canadians on Canada's economic potential
OTTAWA - Next week’s fall economic statement from Finance Minister Bill Morneau will be heftier than a typical fiscal update - the result, sources say, of its two major goals: convincing the pub...
Oct 28, 2016
Reporter named in Muskrat Falls court order says it sets dangerous precedent
GOOSE BAY, N.L. - A journalist who has been ordered to appear in court over his presence at the Muskrat Falls protests says he was reporting, not protesting - and his case could set a dangerous preced...
Oct 28, 2016
An FBI bombshell lands on Hillary Clinton's clear path to the White House
Hillary Clinton’s waltz toward the White House has just been complicated by a bombshell dropped on her path by the FBI - police announced they are examining new emails three months after they cl...
Oct 28, 2016
Foreign buyers 1.3 per cent of Metro Vancouver real estate sales since tax
VANCOUVER - The rate of foreign investment in Metro Vancouver housing has fallen to 1.3 per cent since the introduction of a new tax targeting international buyers, according to new data from the Brit...
Oct 28, 2016
Refugees, powerful women and food: how federal politics touched us this week
OTTAWA - Official Ottawa was on the edge of its seat all week, anxious to see how the CETA soap opera would end. Would the Walloons sabotage the free trade agreement between Canada and Europe that had...
Oct 28, 2016
Another indigenous girl commits suicide on northern Saskatchewan reserve
LOON LAKE, Sask. - Another indigenous girl has committed suicide in northern Saskatchewan - the fifth this month. Barry Chalifoux, a grief counsellor for a school on the Makwa Sahgaiehcan reserve, sai...
Oct 28, 2016