| Pensions and feds job grant program top agenda for premiers' meeting Posted: 14 Nov 2013 08:07 PM PST  TORONTO - Improving retirement incomes and making the federal job grant program more flexible will be high on the agenda when Canada's provincial and territorial leaders meet in Toronto on Friday _ although almost half of them will participate by phone. Host Premier Kathleen Wynne warns of "a huge economic crisis" if steps aren't taken now to reform the Canada Pension Plan, and vows to set up an Ontario retirement income plan if there's no agreement on the CPP. Prince Edward Island has proposed increasing maximum CPP contributions to $4,681.20 a year from $2,356.20 starting in 2016, and hiking the maximum annual benefit to $23,400 from $12,150. "We're all facing significant challenges around our own pension plans in our provinces, but also in terms of the Canadian Pension Plan," said Premier Kathy Dunderdale.
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| 1 dead, 1 stabbed, in northeast Edmonton Posted: 14 Nov 2013 08:53 PM PST  One man was killed and another sustained multiple stab wounds in two incidents which occurred within a block of each other in northeast Edmonton Thursday night.
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| Rob Ford's oral sex comments draw ire of colleagues Posted: 14 Nov 2013 08:29 PM PST Embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is drawing criticism once again, this time for using explicit sexual language during an impromptu news conference outside his office.  |
| Province could intervene in Rob Ford affair if asked: premier Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:08 PM PST  Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne handed Toronto city councillors an apparent roadmap outlining how to remove Mayor Rob Ford from office, although she expressed trepidation at the idea of the province getting involved. Continue reading→
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| Parti Quebecois values charter gets a boost, with help of Liberal Muslim MNA Posted: 14 Nov 2013 03:53 PM PST  QUEBEC - In a political boost to Quebec's controversial values charter, the only Muslim woman in the provincial legislature has broken ranks with her Liberal party's steadfast opposition to the plan. Fatima Houda-Pepin wrote in a letter to The Canadian Press that she is "flabbergasted," "hurt" and "shocked" by one of her colleagues' comments on the chador, wondering if her party's views on equality between men and women was modeled on those of countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran. "I refuse any drift toward cultural relativism under the guise of religion, to legitimize a symbol like the chador, which is the ultimate expression of oppression of women, in addition to being the symbol of radical fundamentalism," she wrote. The reaction was to comments by Marc Tanguay, her party's secularism critic, who said he would welcome Liberal candidates wearing the chador and would be happy to sit with them in the legislature.
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| Border initiatives between Canada and U.S. moving far too slowly: John Manley Posted: 14 Nov 2013 03:18 PM PST  John Manley says a historic opportunity to slash red tape at the Canada-U.S. boundary is in real danger of slipping away. Progress so far has been "disappointingly modest," Manley says in prepared comments obtained by The Canadian Press in advance of his meeting Friday with Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and 100 Canadian and U.S. business leaders in Detroit. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama announced the Beyond the Border and Regulatory Co-operation Council initiatives during a meeting at the White House in December 2011. The border thickened significantly after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, with many Americans, elected and otherwise, erroneously believing that the perpetrators entered the U.S. via Canada.
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| Did Justin Trudeau talk about legalizing pot with elementary school students? Posted: 14 Nov 2013 04:01 PM PST  Another day, another attack against Liberal leader Justin Trudeau by the Harper Conservatives. Some might argue, however, that Trudeau walked into this one. [ Related: Is Justin Trudeau being muzzled? Should he be? ] According to a series of tweets … Continue reading →
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| Jailed Canadian alleged to be at centre of international child-porn crackdown Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:34 PM PST  A Canadian man is alleged to be at the centre of a huge international child-porn operation that apparently hid in plain sight for years. Police in a dozen countries have arrested almost 350 people in a three-year operation dubbed Project … Continue reading →
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| Wireless spectrum needs to be used, Ottawa warns telecoms Posted: 14 Nov 2013 05:24 PM PST  Industry Canada says telecom companies that have been sitting on wireless spectrum for years will have to use it or lose it starting next March.
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| Ketchup-maker Heinz closing Ontario plant in 2014, cutting more than 700 jobs Posted: 14 Nov 2013 02:25 PM PST  LEAMINGTON, Ont. - After more than a century operating in the heart of Ontario's tomato country, ketchup-maker Heinz Canada is closing the doors of its plant in Leamington next year. Heinz has been in Leamington for more than a century, after choosing the city in 1909 for its first expansion outside the United States. The Leamington plant produced ketchup, condiments and sauces, baby food and tomato juice. It will now shift production from the plant to its smaller facility in St. Marys, Ont., and to the U.S.
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| Serial killer gets 20 years for killing two aboriginal women in Manitoba Posted: 14 Nov 2013 02:26 PM PST  Shawn Lamb, who was originally charged with second-degree murder in the deaths of Carolyn Sinclair and Lorna Blacksmith, pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter in a Winnipeg courtroom. Court of Queen's Bench Justice Rick Saull agreed to accept the 20 years sentence that was recommended by both the Crown and defence.
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| Canadian actress convicted of stalking Alec Baldwin, is sentenced to 6 months in jail Posted: 14 Nov 2013 02:22 PM PST  NEW YORK, N.Y. - A Canadian actress who pined for Alec Baldwin was convicted Thursday of stalking him with yearning emails and phone calls that spiraled into unbidden appearances at his homes. So voluble during her trial that she was held in contempt of court, Genevieve Sabourin was tearful but largely mum as a judge found her guilty of charges including stalking and harassment and sentenced her to six months in jail. Sabourin, who hails from the Montreal suburb of Candiac, had turned down a plea offer that would have spared her jail time. The "30 Rock" actor testified that Sabourin, 41, turned his life into a two-year-long horror film after they had dinner together.
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| Top court hears final government plea to allow easy path to Senate reform Posted: 14 Nov 2013 02:33 PM PST  OTTAWA - Don't make it impossible to change Canada's scandal-plagued Senate.
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| Alberta man gets jail, lifetime driving ban for school crash that killed girl Posted: 14 Nov 2013 03:18 PM PST  ST. PAUL, Alta. - Sherry Wolitski imagines her 11-year-old daughter sitting in the back of her Grade 6 class and wonders about the final moment of her life. She pictures a minivan crashing through a large window and brick wall of a rural Alberta school before it dives into the lower-level classroom. Another student, Maddie Guitard, survived a major brain injury sustained in the crash in St. Paul in October 2012. What they heard was that the van's driver, Richard Benson, had a seizure while he was behind the wheel.
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| Child porn charges laid against 10 Laval teens Posted: 14 Nov 2013 01:31 PM PST  Ten teenagers appeared in youth court in Laval, Que., today to face child pornography charges, for allegedly trading explicit photos taken with the Snapchat app.
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| Ex-doctor who killed his kids, then walked free, faces renewed murder charges Posted: 14 Nov 2013 02:27 PM PST  Guy Turcotte, his hands cuffed and head bowed, shuffled into a courtroom one day after the Quebec Court of Appeal ordered a new trial in the 2009 stabbing deaths of his kids, Anne-Sophie, 3, and Olivier, 5. During his high-profile first-degree-murder trial in 2011, Turcotte admitted to stabbing his daughter and son a total of 46 times one night, amid a messy breakup with their mother. Turcotte was later deemed fit for release from a mental institution, where he had been locked up after a total of 46 months in psychiatric care. But on Wednesday he surrendered to police after the appeals court overturned the 2011 decision, because of perceived legal errors, and authorities issued a warrant for his arrest.
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| Canada could send three to six military helicopters for Philippine relief Posted: 14 Nov 2013 02:32 PM PST  OTTAWA - The Canadian Forces are considering sending a detachment of three to six Griffon helicopters to help with relief efforts in the Philippines in the wake of typhoon Haiyan.
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| Mysterious sounds over Saskatoon have locals looking for answers Posted: 14 Nov 2013 09:32 AM PST  There's an interesting phenomenon going on in different locations around the world. People are hearing strange noises coming from the sky that have them stumped. Is it aliens, intrusions from parallel worlds, secret government experiments, or are people being hoaxed … Continue reading →
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| Charlie Sheen, Saturday Night Live weigh in on Rob Ford scandal Posted: 14 Nov 2013 08:28 PM PST  TORONTO - The ongoing scandal surrounding Rob Ford took a sillier turn Thursday as even a notoriously hard-drinking Hollywood star was dragged into the debate over the Toronto mayor's actions. Charlie Sheen, whose substance abuse problems have been publicly documented, weighed in on the controversy after a satirical article claimed he said the mayor "parties too much" and should step down.
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| Toronto mayor says 'I'm sorry' again, to get help for alcohol problem Posted: 14 Nov 2013 12:00 PM PST  By Solarina Ho and Cameron French TORONTO (Reuters) - Embattled Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, under huge pressure to quit after he admitted smoking crack cocaine, said on Thursday he was getting help for a drinking problem, but offered no indication that he might step down. Ford also expressed remorse for an obscene outburst he made earlier in the day when denying an allegation he had made sexual overtures to a female member of his staff. "I want to apologize for my graphic remarks this morning," Ford said in the latest of a string of apologies, his wife, Renata, standing silently at his side. ...
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| Toronto mayor says he is seeking help for drinking problems Posted: 14 Nov 2013 09:51 AM PST  Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, under pressure to resign after he admitted smoking crack and buying illegal drugs, said on Thursday he was receiving professional help for drinking problems, but gave no hint he might step down. In a brief statement to the Toronto media, Ford also apologized for using obscene language earlier in the day when he denied allegations that he had sexually propositioned a female aide.
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