Category Archives: Canada

Tim Hortons is scrapping Roll Up The Rim cups due to the coronavirus
TORONTO - Tim Hortons says it is getting rid of Roll Up The Rim cups due to the novel coronavirus and is moving much of the annual contest to its app. The coffee-and-doughnut chain is removing al...
Mar 08, 2020

Coronavirus may force government to ditch balanced-budget plan: Alberta premier
EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney says the novel coronavirus outbreak is hammering Alberta's economy and may force his government to abandon its core election promise to balance the books by 2...
Mar 08, 2020

Navy's aging warships getting harder to repair: Defence report
OTTAWA - The Royal Canadian Navy's maintenance facilities are having an increasingly tougher time fixing Canada's warships because of staff shortages, lack of spare parts and the age of the fleet, acc...
Mar 08, 2020

Peter MacKay says he regrets how 'stinking albatross' comment was viewed
REGINA - Federal Conservative leadership candidate Peter MacKay says he regrets how some people interpreted his comment that current leader Andrew Scheer's socially conservative values were a "stinkin...
Mar 08, 2020

Dr. Bonnie Henry, virus hunter, healer, resolves to "break" COVID-19
VICTORIA - At the end of a stark news conference during which Dr. Bonnie Henry wiped tears as she broke the news confirming diagnosis of two cases of COVID-19 transmission at a North Vancouver lo...
Mar 08, 2020

Advocacy group formed by families who lost loved ones in semi-truck crashes
A new non-profit group advocating road safety has been formed nearly two years after a deadly hockey bus crash in rural Saskatchewan. Safer Roads Canada was founded by families, including so...
Mar 08, 2020

Conservatives call for spending cuts, waste reduction in federal budget
OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are calling for spending cuts and waste reduction in the coming federal budget to unleash the economy and create jobs. The Tories say reckle...
Mar 08, 2020

Global Inuit organization concerned about potential spread of COVID-19 in North
OTTAWA - If the novel coronavirus spreads to the North, Inuit communities in Canada and elsewhere in the Arctic are at a much higher risk of exposure because of a chronic lack of basic infrastruc...
Mar 08, 2020

The latest developments on COVID-19 in Canada
The latest news on the novel coronavirus and the illness dubbed COVID-19 (all times Eastern): 5:37 p.m. The Ontario Ministry of Health says two more people have tested positive for the novel co...
Mar 08, 2020

Slain Quebec teen Oceane Boyer remembered as a 'ball of energy' as family bids farewell
LACHUTE, Que. - A Quebec teen who was the victim of a brutal slaying last week was remembered by family and friends on Friday as a helpful, compassionate and energetic force. Hundreds of people t...
Mar 08, 2020