Canada

CMHC looks to raise extra money for housing outside of billions from government

OTTAWA - The chief executive of the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says his agency wants to raise hundreds of millions more dollars to help Canadians afford places to live, adding to the billions a...

Apr 05, 2019

Montreal cabbies prompt traffic jams with protest against industry overhaul

MONTREAL - Hundreds of taxis converged on downtown Montreal today, blocking major arteries to protest the government's deregulation of their industry. They say proposed reforms to make room for ride-h...

Apr 05, 2019

Freeland say lifting U.S. tariffs is part of ratification of the new NAFTA

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is linking the lifting of "absurd" U.S. tariffs on Canadian and Mexican steel to the ratification of the new North American free-trade deal. Dealing...

Apr 05, 2019

EDC investigating claim it backed SNC-Lavalin on corrupt Angola dam contract

OTTAWA - Export Development Canada is reviewing its decision to provide up to half a billion dollars worth of insurance in 2011 for an SNC-Lavalin contract in Angola afte...

Apr 05, 2019

B.C. public schools to provide free menstrual products for students

BURNABY, B.C. - Free menstrual products are being made available in every British Columbia public school. Education Minister Rob Fleming says a ministerial ordered requires all public schools to provi...

Apr 05, 2019

Former Winnipeg broadcaster get prison time after admitting to bank holdups

REGINA - A former Winnipeg television sports anchor has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison after pleading guilty to a string of bank robberies in Saskatchewan. Stephen Vogelsang was s...

Apr 05, 2019

Cryptocurrency platform QuadrigaCX should be placed in bankruptcy: monitor

HALIFAX - The court-ordered monitor picking over the remains of the shuttered QuadrigaCX cryptocurrency platform says the insolvent operation should be placed in bankruptcy. Ernst and Young says ...

Apr 05, 2019

Manitoba joins two other provinces challenging federal carbon tax in court

WINNIPEG - Manitoba has joined a list of conservative-led provinces challenging the federal government's backstop carbon tax in court. Premier Brian Pallister says his government will ask a ...

Apr 05, 2019

O'Regan says Cat Lake housing money will not be spent on consultant fee

OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Seamus O'Regan says the government is "deeply disturbed" by a report that a consultant working for Cat Lake First Nation is demanding a fee of more than $1 m...

Apr 05, 2019

Defence lawyer suggests Joshua Boyle's wife lied about an alleged assault

OTTAWA - A lawyer for Joshua Boyle suggested Wednesday his wife made up a story that he struck her in the face at their Ottawa apartment in the months after the couple were freed f...

Apr 05, 2019