The Canadian PressJim Bronskill OTTAWA–Canada’s anti-money laundering agency is warning casinos to carefully eye customers who pay for their gaming with bank drafts ‚Äî the latest method of choice for criminals trying to disguise dirty money. The federal Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada, known as Fintrac, says […]
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The Canadian Press EDMONTON–A sentencing hearing starts today for a man who struck a police officer with a car before stabbing him multiple times outside an Edmonton football game. Abdulahi Hasan Sharif, who is 32, was also found guilty of running down four pedestrians with a U-Haul van in September […]
The Canadian PressJordan Press OTTAWA — Opposition parties’ public fretting over aspects of the newly revised North American free-trade deal-a pact tweaked this week to win American lawmakers’ support-suggests the agreement’s path to ratification might not be smooth. The Liberal government’s minority status in the House of Commons means the […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO–Public high school teachers at nine Ontario school boards held a one-day strike yesterday-the second in as many weeks-as the province and union agreed to return to the bargaining table. The teachers have been without a contract since their last one expired at the end of August, […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO–Ontario’s four major teachers’ unions say they are launching charter challenges today to a law capping public sector wage increases. The unions, which represent both elementary and high school teachers in public, Catholic and French boards, say it violates their collective bargaining rights. The Progressive Conservative government […]
The Canadian Press A national agriculture group says farming needs to change to help save the climate and the industry. The National Farmers Union says in a report that old-fashioned mixed farming needs to be combined with the latest information technology. It suggests that’s how agriculture could dramatically reduce its […]
The Canadian Press LANIGAN, Sask.–The Transportation Safety Board says Monday’s fiery Canadian Pacific Railway freight train derailment in Saskatchewan involved the estimated release of 1.5 million litres of oil. The resulting fire forced the temporary closure of Highway 16 due to thick, black smoke. The TSB says 33 oil tank […]
The Canadian Press GABRIOLA ISLAND, B.C.–Friends are identifying a kind, caring and skilled pilot among those killed in a plane crash on Gabriola Island. Alex Bahlsen was born in Germany and moved to Cayley, Alta., around 30 years ago, Rasmus Rydstrom-Poulsen said yesterday. About a year ago, he moved to […]
The Canadian PressTeresa Wright OTTAWA — New numbers released Wednesday show close to 14,000 Canadians have been killed by opioids over the last four years and more than 17,000 people have been hospitalized for opioid-related poisoning. The data is in a new report from a national advisory committee struck to […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA–Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said a recent vote to support a UN resolution endorsing Palestinian self-determination is not a shift in Canada’s policy against singling out Israel for criticism on the international stage. Trudeau made the remarks yesterday at a menorah lighting on Parliament Hill, where about […]
The Canadian PressHina Alam A Canadian man says he is still “shaky” from the experience of witnessing the beginnings of a volcanic eruption in New Zealand. The volcano off the New Zealand coast erupted yesterday with a towering blast of ash and scalding steam as dozens of tourists were exploring […]
The Canadian PressAllison Jones TORONTO–Ontario’s attorney general is cancelling planned cuts to legal aid funding, but this year’s 30 percent budget cut is being made permanent. Doug Downey announced yesterday that the current funding level will continue, but there won’t be further reductions to Legal Aid Ontario’s budget. “We had […]
