Category Archives: Canadian Press
New Brunswick set for cannabis retail but first year sales less than forecast
FREDERICTON - New Brunswick says it will be ready for cannabis sales when it becomes legal in October - but the delay from the original July startup will cost the province millions. Finance Minister C...
Jun 28, 2018
Canadians dodged paying feds up to $3B in taxes on foreign income: CRA
OTTAWA - Canadians dodged paying Ottawa somewhere between $800 million and $3 billion worth of taxes on foreign personal income in 2014, says a new federal estimate released Thursday. The study by the...
Jun 28, 2018
Mike Duffy lawyers raise spectre of past scandal in bid to sue Senate
OTTAWA - Sen. Mike Duffy’s lawyers recalled the political scandal surrounding his expense claims in a bid Thursday to keep the Senate in the crosshairs of a multimillion-dollar lawsuit over his ...
Jun 28, 2018
Toronto gallery to unveil cross-cultural Canadian and Indigenous art centre
TORONTO - The curatorial team tasked with re-envisioning the Art Gallery of Ontario’s permanent collection of Canadian and Indigenous works says the overhaul signals a creative culture shift for...
Jun 28, 2018
Blue Jays putting emphasis on mental performance throughout organization
TORONTO - The so-called mind gym is one of the first places new draft picks go at the Toronto Blue Jays’ training facility in Dunedin, Fla. It’s a group workshop where they learn the impor...
Jun 28, 2018
Despite setbacks and high court's ruling, unions show spark
Their membership has been declining for decades. They’ve been bedeviled by crippling new laws, and by a devastating U.S. Supreme Court decision just this week. From all appearances, it would see...
Jun 28, 2018
Canadian Open lands Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson as headliners
OAKVILLE, Ont. - Bill Paul was like any other golf fan, watching as Brooks Koepka seized control on No. 16 at Shinnecock Hills to win the U.S. Open. But as tournament director for the upcoming RBC Can...
Jun 28, 2018
Ford becomes Ontario premier Friday, but work on key promises already underway
TORONTO - Though he officially takes up the premier’s mantle on Friday, Doug Ford has already set the wheels in motion for several of his plans for Ontario - and one expert predicts the Progress...
Jun 28, 2018
Predictions of pipeline protest violence derided by organizers from both sides
CALGARY - Pro-pipeline activists who hit the streets in increasing numbers this year to try to drown out anti-pipeline picketers plan to continue to confront their adversaries, even in the face of pre...
Jun 28, 2018
Crown seeks prison time for disgraced ex-Quebec construction mogul Tony Accurso
LAVAL, Que. - One-time Quebec construction mogul Tony Accurso should receive a five-year prison term and be ordered to pay $1.6 million, the Crown prosecutor said Thursday. Accurso’s lawyer, how...
Jun 28, 2018