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Toronto mayor fires chief of staff amid drug scandal
Rob Ford, mayor of Toronto, waves the pan american flag during the Closing Ceremony of the XVI Pan American Games at the Omnilife Stadium on October 30, 2011 in Guadalajara, Mexico. (Dennis Grombkowski, Getty ...
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As Ford quits Australia a challenge for Canada
Ford Motor Co.'s decision to pull the plug on its Australian auto-making operations highlights the struggles of that country's manufacturing sector in the face of a currency bloated to the point of uncompetitiveness by its excessive exposure to commodity ...
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TSX Ends Lower On Global Cues China Data - Canadian Commentary
markets after some weak manufacturing data out of China, and the U.S. Federal Reserve's stand on its monetary policy. Global markets roiled after Japan's Nikkei plunged to its lowest since the devastating earthquake and tsunami hit the island nation about two years ago.Japan's Nikkei index plummeted 7.3 percent, attributed largely to a spike in 10-year government bond yields which ...
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Marianas Trench earns most nods at MMVAs
with four. All three acts earned nominations for video of the year, Trench scored with "Desperate Measures" (also up for best pop video), Drake tallied with "Started From The Bottom," Classified for "Inner Ninja" along with Serena ...
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Canadians cant seem to cache their cash
A long, long time ago, or so we are told, people around the world, and even here in Canada, would hide their cash and valuables in a hole in the ground, or in a mattress, and maybe even in a ...
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Quebec woman run over three times by her own car
TROIS-RIVIERES, Que. -- A woman is recovering following a bizarre accident in which she was run over three times by her own car. Trois-Rivieres, Que., police say the newspaper delivery woman was making her rounds this week and jumping in and out of her car frequently to drop copies of Le Nouvelliste on subscribers' doorsteps. But things went awry during one parking attempt. Her ...
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Big retailers pull out of $7B credit card fee settlement
Some of the country's largest retailers, including Target Corp. and Macy's Inc., on Thursday filed a lawsuit against MasterCard and Visa, rejecting a settlement reached last year over alleged fee-fixing. A larger group of 19 trade associations and retail companies originally filed suit against the card processing companies in 2005, claiming that they conspired to fix the fees they ...
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Reed German soccer strength on display in Champions League final
Dortmund's Robert Lewandowski, left, fought for the ball with Bayern's Holger Badstuber during a matchup of the eventual Champions League finalists in a German league game in December. (Lennart Preiss/Bongarts/Getty ...
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Canada Post campaigns against no flyers mailbox signs
Canada Post mail carriers deliver flyers and unaddressed mail for many companies and other organizations, a source of revenue for the postal corporation. ...
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Duffy expense claims reveal more about campaign travel
Election spending records show Senator Mike Duffy campaigned with Prime Minister Stephen Harper in the Northwest Territories during the 2011 election, while also claiming he was on Senate business. (Devaan Ingraham/Canadian ...
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Quebec film wins screenplay prize at Cannes
a movie by Quebec director Sebastien Pilote, has won one of the main prizes of sidebar program Critics Week at the Cannes Film Festival. The film, which translates ...
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Johnsons Landing residents get more bad news about homes
Residents of Johnsons Landing, B.C., are being told many of their homes and properties are uninhabitable following a geotechnical report after a mudslide last year. A massive slide roared through the tiny Kootenay community in July 2012, killing four people. Residents are now being told the slide path remains unstable and more debris could slide down the mountain side at any time, making it ...
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Smog is back in Ottawa this spring
OTTAWA -- Smog is back in town after a four-year absence, a reminder that there are no quick and easy roads to clean air.As always, this air pollutant is a bit of a mystery.Ozone gas, the main ingredient in Eastern Canada's smog, forms when a variety of air pollutants react together in bright sunlight. It's mostly and spring and summer problem.But in the summer of 2009, it just stopped ...
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Audit scandal Senate turns over documents to special RCMP investigative unit
Senator Mike Duffy, with Sen. Donald Plett, arrives on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Thursday. The RCMP’s anti-corruption unit is examining the claims of senators Duffy, Mac Harb and Patrick ...
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Inquiry hears of car bombing and safe bursting with cash kickbacks
Gilles Theberge testifies at the Charbonneau inquiry, May 23, 2013. (TVA SCREENSHOT) MONTREAL -- A car bombing and a safe bursting with cash kickbacks made for dramatic testimony at the Charbonneau commission on Thursday. Retired road-paving executive Gilles Theberge admitted to creating a cartel of firms that split contracts in the Montreal suburb of Laval in early 2000. He said bid-rigging ...
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Warrants issued for suspect in northwest Calgary burglaries
Police released this mug shot of Thomas Damien Stevic, 34, of Calgary, wanted in connection with four break-ins in the communities Tuscany and Scenic Acres earlier this ...
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Dominican officials arrest 4 accused of smuggling migrants into US Canada
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic - Dominican authorities have arrested four men from Sri Lanka accused of smuggling at least 60 migrants from India and the Middle East into the U.S. and Canada using fake passports. The suspects would smuggle the migrants from Europe to Haiti and then cross them into the Dominican Republic, Maximo Munoz, spokesman for the National Investigations Department, ...
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More than one-third of Quebec high-schoolers victimized study
MONTREAL -- More than one in three high-school students in the province say they have been victims of violence at school or on the way to or from school, according to a study made public Thursday by the Institut de la statistique du Qubec. Just five per cent said they were victimized by cyberbullying during the school year, with girls nearly twice as likely to be bullied on the Internet as ...
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CANADA STOCKS-TSX dips on stimulus fears sluggish data
* TSX down 94.41 points, or 0.74 percent, at 12,658.09 * All 10 main sectors decline * TD Bank falls after results By John Tilak TORONTO, May 23 (Reuters) - Canada's main stock index dipped on Thursday as fears the U.S. Federal Reserve will dial back its bond-buying program and pessimism following sluggish economic data from China and Europe fueled declines in all major sectors. Weakness in ...
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UPDATE 1-Quebec to do own review of Enbridge pipeline project
Thu May 23, 2013 4:41pm EDT * Quebec to hold separate review of pipeline-reversal plan * Review to run concurrent to federal process By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, May 23 (Reuters) - Quebec will announce within weeks that it will launch its own public review of a proposed pipeline that would deliver crude oil from western Canada to eastern markets, its environment minister said ...
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Canada terror suspect says attorney must use holy book
TORONTO (AP) — A man accused of plotting to derail a train in Canada with support from al-Qaida is asking to be represented by a defense attorney willing to use the "holy book" as a reference in his case.During a hearing Thursday Chiheb Esseghaier requested a court-appointed lawyer who will use the "holy book" as a reference. The Tunisian-born Muslim was apparently ...
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On Site Contemporary design for a new Toronto hub
redpathcondos.com Peter Freed, the pioneer developer behind a string of popular King West condominiums, is now planting the flag in midtown Toronto with a plan to develop a series of contemporary high-rises in the Yonge-Eglinton ...
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Finally signs of progress at Sears Canada
There's still a long and difficult road ahead - especially given Target's arrival this year in the Canadian retail scene - but there are early signs that the turnaround efforts ...
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Read the letter that the RCMP sent the Senate
Senator Marjory LeBreton talks to media in Senate Foyer on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Thursday, May 9, 2013 regarding an audit on Senators housing expenses. (Sean Kilpatrick/THE CANADIAN ...
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TV importers accuse Ottawa of misleading tariff rulings
Importers of popular electronics such as big-screen TVs and MP3 players are ramping up their fight against federal tariff changes, accusing the government of misleading them by offering tariff breaks that it planned to claw back later.Importers of televisions are already on the hook for about $16-million in retroactive duties from 2011 after last year's crackdown on a particular tariff ...
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