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Failing firm spent big on luxuries as it sought government funding: N.B. auditor
FREDERICTON - Taxpayers were left on the hook for close to $70 million while top executives of the failing Atcon group of companies were spending money on luxury items including vacation property in A...
Oct 03, 2017
Publisher recalling workbook after Indigenous history section comes under fire
An Ontario publishing company is recalling a children’s educational workbook that critics say misinforms kids about injustices faced by First Nations when European settlers arrived in Canada. Th...
Oct 03, 2017
N.S. doctors threaten province with legal action over contract disputes
HALIFAX - Nova Scotia doctors are threatening to take the province to court, saying alleged contract breaches by the Liberal government have eroded the goodwill needed to fix a fragile health-care sys...
Oct 03, 2017
Hilton the celebrity great white appears to be ending his stay in N.S. waters
HALIFAX - A 600-kilogram great white shark who enthralled Nova Scotians for months as he cruised East Coast waters appears to be ending his northern sojourn and heading south. A group tracking the 3.7...
Oct 03, 2017
Canadians affected by Las Vegas massacre
A number of Canadians are among those killed and injured in a mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas. Here’s what we know about them, according to relatives, friends and their Fa...
Oct 03, 2017
CMHC looks to Airbnb in bid to boost withering supply of affordable rental units
OTTAWA - Canada’s housing agency is looking to an unlikely ally in a bid to boost the stock of affordable rental housing: Airbnb. The head of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp., says he belie...
Oct 03, 2017
U.S. orders 15 Cuban diplomats to leave; Canada stays the course on Cuba
WASHINGTON - Canada and the United States have responded in drastically different ways to bizarre attacks on diplomatic personnel in Havana, with the Americans pursuing a hardline approach that escala...
Oct 03, 2017
Air Canada, WestJet offer Las Vegas travel plan changes for a limited time
CALGARY - Canada’s two major airlines are waiving fees for ticket holders who want to change their Las Vegas travel plans in the wake of the shooting there on Sunday that killed at least 59 peop...
Oct 03, 2017
University of Toronto researchers contribute to work done by Nobel Physics Prize winners
TORONTO - Ontario researchers were part of the large team that contributed to the work done by three U.S.-based professors who were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize for their detection of gravitational...
Oct 03, 2017
Six stories in the news for today, Oct. 3
Six stories in the news for Tuesday, Oct. 3 --- TWO CANADIANS AMONG 57 DEATHS IN LAS VEGAS MASSACRE Two Canadians, a mother of four and a man just days away from his 24th birthday, were among dozens o...
Oct 03, 2017