The Associated PressNick Perry WELLINGTON, New Zealand—New Zealand has voted to keep its current flag by a margin of 57 percent to 43 percent in a nationwide poll that ended today. More than two million people voted in the ballot to decide whether to keep the British Union Jack on […]
Canada
The Canadian Press TORONTO—Premier Kathleen Wynne says the Liberal government has no plans to raise the $100,000 threshold for Ontario’s so-called sunshine list of public sector workers. The list comes out later today, and will provide salaries and benefits for tens of thousands of workers, including police, firefighters, nurses, teachers, […]
The Canadian PressKeith Leslie TORONTO—Health Minister Eric Hoskins complained yesterday about the billing practices of some Ontario doctors, who he said were taking hundreds of millions of dollars away from home care and other services. “Unpredictable and frankly out of control billing by some doctors is a problem that creates […]
Press Release Ontario will raise the general minimum wage from $11.25 to $11.40 on Oct. 1—keeping Ontario’s wage the highest of any province. Minimum wage rates for liquor servers, students under the age of 18, hunting and fishing guides, and homeworkers also will increase at the same time. Changes to […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO—Ontario’s Opposition said yesterday that there was something “shady” about a move by the Ornge air ambulance service to lease a helicopter from an Italian firm under investigation in a kickback scandal. It’s been four years since police started investigating a web of companies set up by […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO—Police are crediting a watchful member of the public for averting tragedy in the case of a three-month old baby who was briefly the subject of an amber alert over the weekend. Const. Victor Kwong says a worker taking a cigarette break from his job in the […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO—Ontario has released its final regulations to ban police from randomly stopping people to collect personal information, a practice known as carding or street checks. The regulations, which were first posted last October for public comment, set out what the government calls “clear and consistent rules” for […]
The Associated Press TORONTO—Rob Ford, the pugnacious, populist former mayor of Toronto whose career crashed in a drug-driven, obscenity-laced debacle, died today after fighting cancer, his family says. He was 46. Ford rode into office on a backlash against urban elites. He cast an image sharply at odds with Canada’s […]
The Canadian PressAllison Jones TORONTO—Ontario’s 2016 budget was sent to translators before public consultations were finished which the opposition parties say is proof the process of seeking input was really a “sham” and a “charade.” The Feb. 25 budget came significantly earlier than any budget in recent memory, with the […]
The Associated Press DODGE CENTER, Minn.—Authorities in Minnesota say an 11-year-old boy is in custody after stealing a cement truck from a contractor and leading officers on a chase. Sheriff’s officials say the chase started about 3 p.m. Sunday in Dodge Center when the boy drove the truck onto Highway […]
The Associated Press HAVANA—Brushing past profound differences, President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro sat down today at Havana’s Palace of the Revolution for a historic meeting, offering critical clues about whether the sharp U.S. U-turn in policy will be fully reciprocated. For Obama, there’s no better place than […]
The Canadian Press CALGARY—Testicular cancer is the most common form of the disease in young males and a new study out of the University of Calgary is showing a cure rate of almost 100 percent in patients who are disease-free two years after diagnosis and treatment. About 1,000 men are […]
