The Canadian Press LES BERGERONNES, Que.—Quebec provincial police say four people are dead and two others are missing after a seaplane crashed on the province’s North Shore. Police have said the Air Saguenay plane carrying six people went down in a wooded area yesterday, six km from the community of […]
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The Associated Press BELEN, N.M.—A group of people in New Mexico say they cooked the world’s longest tamale Saturday morning. Luis Hernandez, of the ABQ West Chamber of Commerce, said a team of more than 30 chefs at Viva II, a three-day celebration of the state’s heritage, assembled a 116-foot, […]
The Canadian Press VANCOUVER—Smoke from wildfires raging in Washington state has drifted north, blanketing much of southern B.C. in a thick haze. Winds drove smoke from several wildfires south of the border into the province over the weekend, resulting in poor visibility and air quality issues, the B.C. Wildfire Service […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO—The Toronto Stock Exchange plunged this morning—part of a global downturn affecting markets around the world. The market’s benchmark S&P/TSX index was down about 348.39 points at 13,125.28 shortly before noon, representing a drop of 2.6 percent from Friday’s close. Earlier in the day, the Toronto index […]
The Canadian Press ST. ALBERT, Alta.—An Alberta man had joked so many times about winning the lottery that his wife didn’t believe him when they finally hit the jackpot. And what a jackpot—Raymond Scott’s winning ticket from the Aug. 7 Lotto Max draw is worth $50 million. Scott, who lives […]
The Canadian Press OTTAWA—Whose story to believe on the 2013 backroom deal between the Prime Minister’s Office and Sen. Mike Duffy—that of Stephen Harper’s former lawyer or his closest aide? Benjamin Perrin, who worked for a year inside the PMO as both counsel and policy adviser, laid out in court […]
The Canadian Press TORONTO—As one Ontario teachers’ union reached a tentative contract agreement early yesterday, another was ramping up its work-to-rule plans for the start of classes Sept. 8. Details of the deal between the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation and the Public School Boards’ Association are being kept secret […]
The Canadian PressBob Weber Climate change is forcing the boreal forest that covers much of northern Canada to a tipping point, a newly-published study concludes. “The changes could be very dramatic and very fast,” said Dmitry Schepaschenko of Austria’s Institute for Applied Systems Analysis. Schepaschenko was one of three authors […]
The Canadian PressMike Blanchfield OTTAWA—Stephen Harper’s political opponents agreed on one thing yesterday: it is unlikely the prime minister was in the dark about the controversial Mike Duffy expense payout given that his right-hand man knew. Harper said he wasn’t going to discuss the latest controversial revelations from the Duffy […]
The Associated PressMatthew Perrone WASHINGTON—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved the first prescription drug designed to boost sexual desire in women—a milestone long sought by a pharmaceutical industry eager to replicate the blockbuster success of impotence drugs for men. But stringent safety measures on the daily pill […]
The Canadian PressMichelle McQuigge TORONTO—A pair of Ontario teenagers soon will be collecting thousands of dollars after their employer fired them for observing a religious holiday. The province’s Human Rights Tribunal ruled that vegetable grower Country Herbs discriminated against the young siblings on the basis of their creed. The tribunal […]
The Canadian PressLauren La Rose TORONTO—Many would consider the sound of kids gleefully playing outdoors a natural soundtrack of the summer. But one family in Pickering, Ont., located east of Toronto, was told the sound of their kids splashing in their backyard pool was deemed unreasonably disruptive by a neighbour. […]
