The Canadian Press OTTAWA—The Federation of Canadian Municipalities is sending an urgent message to federal political parties to address housing for seniors in this fall’s election campaign as Canada approaches “a perfect storm.” In findings released today, the FCM documented slumping incomes among seniors, rising rent costs, and an increasingly […]
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The Canadian PressMichael MacDonald INVERNESS, N.S.—A wildly-popular fundraising game that attracted tens of thousands of people to a tiny Cape Breton town in recent weeks came to a climactic end Saturday when a $1.7-million jackpot was awarded to a retired woman and her ailing husband. Donelda MacAskill, from Englishtown, N.S., […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO—Ontario will spend $50 million a year to expanding coverage of in-vitro fertilization to help about 4,000 would-be parents grow their families. Health minister Eric Hoskins says anyone with fertility problems, “including non-medical factors” such as same-sex couples and single people, will be able to access one […]
The Canadian Press WINNIPEG—Manitoba’s conservation minister says the province is working of new zebra mussel laws that will be the toughest in the country. Gord Mackintosh noted a huge infestation has occurred in Lake Winnipeg, along with the Red River. Dean Thorkelsson, manager of Lake Agassi Marine, says zebra mussels […]
By Maria Cheng The Associated Press LONDON The World Health Organization has revised its HIV guidelines to recommend that anyone who tests positive for the virus that causes AIDS should be treated immediately. That guidance fits with what is already recommended in many developed nations, including the United States. The […]
The Canadian Press THOMPSON, Man.—The Transportation Safety Board says a plane that crashed in northern Manitoba last month, sending eight people to hospital, had the wrong fuel. The Navajo Chieftain aircraft operated by Keystone Air had a malfunction shortly after take-off on Sept. 15 and tried to return to the […]
The Canadian PressKeith Leslie TORONTO—Thousands of Ontarians who bought used cars in May are being notified that they failed to pay the appropriate sales tax due to an “unfortunate” mistake the government is blaming on a private contractor. The Ministry of Finance is sending letters to 6,500 people who will […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO—Hudson’s Bay said Tuesday it is laying off 265 head office employees in an effort to reduce expenses. Spokeswoman Tiffany Bourre said the cuts will affect a variety of jobs, but mainly will at its Toronto and New York corporate offices. Bourre said most of the layoffs […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA—Panda bears and Joe Oliver—two things rarely seen thus far on the 2015 campaign trail—made unexpected appearances yesterday that left political observers scratching their heads. The finance minister surfaced in his hotly-contested Toronto riding of Eglinton-Lawrence to crow about the latest GDP numbers: a paltry 0.3 percent […]
The Canadian Press WINNIPEG The Winnipeg-based Canadian Centre for Child Protection has launched a new campaign to help teens who have been seriously impacted by the spread of sexual pictures. In a news release, the centre says the social fallout from this kind of cyberbullying can leave youth feeling alienated […]
The Associated Press U.S. President Barack Obama today pledged all possible tools—military, intelligence, and economic—to defeat the Islamic State group. But he also acknowledged the extremist group has taken root in Syria and Iraq, is resilient, and continues to expand. Obama spoke as chairman of a U.N. gathering of world […]
The Canadian Press SYDNEY, N.S.—A school board on Nova Scotia’s Cape Breton Island has banned school dances for students in Grades 6-8—a move that’s prompted hundreds of people to sign an online petition demanding the dances be reinstated. The Cape Breton-Victoria Regional School Board said yesterday its administration made the […]
