| Political parties become shameless in attempts to get your emails Posted: 05 Mar 2014 10:47 AM PST  The online world can be a little scary these days: As an Internet user, you need to be cognisant about what websites you visit, careful about downloads and alert about where you're entering your credit card numbers. Well, now you've … Continue reading →
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| Struggling Vancouver Canucks impacts local businesses Posted: 05 Mar 2014 09:09 PM PST Businesses that depend on the success of the Vancouver Canucks are feeling the economic impacts of a disappointing season.  |
| Dairy supply management costs billions, limits dairy industry: Conference Board Posted: 05 Mar 2014 09:02 PM PST OTTAWA - The Conference Board says Canada's protectionist supply management system is costing consumers of dairy products billions of dollars, while also acting as a drag on the industry it coddles. The report argues that Canadian consumers pay $2.6 billion — or about $276 per family — more a year than those in other countries as a result of a system that inflates prices for dairy products, including milk and cheese. That has made dairy farmers among the most prosperous in the country, the Conference Board says, but it has also stalled progress and innovation in the industry. To become global players, it says, the dairy industry needs to follow the lead of New Zealand and Australia and be weaned off its dependence on a system of quotas and high tariff walls that artificially inflate prices in the domestic market.  |
| Defence minister says another one-cent cheque incident won't happen again Posted: 05 Mar 2014 04:19 PM PST  OTTAWA - The government blunder that delivered a one-cent cheque to the mother of a dead Canadian soldier will never be repeated, Defence Minister Rob Nicholson vowed Wednesday in the House of Commons. Nicholson, who issued his own abject apology for the mistake Tuesday during question period, repeated himself Wednesday and said he has arranged to speak personally with Cpl. "Immediately after question period I contacted the department. Stark, 22, a reservist with the Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, took his own life in October 2011 after a seven-month tour of duty in Afghanistan.
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| Rights group calls for independent oversight of federal border agency Posted: 05 Mar 2014 03:47 PM PST  VANCOUVER - A British Columbia-based civil rights group is renewing its call for an independent body to monitor the agency that polices Canada's borders, more than seven years after a public inquiry into the Maher Arar case recommended more outside oversight. The B.C. Civil Liberties Association says the federal government has done nothing to implement a recommendation from the Arar inquiry that an outside body review the national security duties of the Canada Border Services Agency, or CBSA. The association's executive director, Josh Paterson, said he's written the federal public safety minister asking the government to go even further, creating an independent body to monitor all areas in which the agency acts like a police force. "Despite the broad police powers given to CBSA, there is no independent oversight of the activities of their officers," Paterson told a news conference Wednesday in Vancouver, speaking alongside groups that advocate for refugees.
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| UBC research project uses Ouija boards to answer questions about the mind Posted: 05 Mar 2014 04:23 PM PST  Ouija boards are, to put it politely, hokum. However, while Ouija boards are not mystical conduits to the spirit world, it seems they are useful for picking through our unconscious minds. Continue reading →
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| A small carbon levy might help get KXL approved, says Saskatchewan premier Posted: 05 Mar 2014 05:42 PM PST  WASHINGTON - A modest levy on the oil-and-gas sector might help secure Washington's support for the Keystone XL pipeline, Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall said during a trip to the U.S. capital Wednesday. Wall pointed to Alberta's initial $15-a-tonne levy on greenhouse gas emissions as an example. The amount is deemed insignificant by environmentalists and Alberta's own provincial government has signalled a willingness to nearly triple the fee. "I think the price wouldn't be that different from what Alberta has done.
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| Canada to send observers to international Ukraine mission for Crimea Posted: 05 Mar 2014 03:58 PM PST  OTTAWA - Canada will send two observers to join an unarmed military mission in Ukraine and will impose more sanctions on the regime of fugitive Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Wednesday. "Russia's invasion of Ukraine is a clear violation of international law," Harper said in a statement. "Canada will contribute observers to an important military observer mission in a co-ordinated effort to better monitor the Russian military intervention in Crimea." A spokeswoman for Defence Minister Rob Nicholson later said the two Canadian Forces members have arrived in Odessa, Ukraine, and are presently co-ordinating with Ukrainian and other observers.
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| B.C. woman fails in bid to hold casino responsible for her losing $330K Posted: 05 Mar 2014 12:51 PM PST  A problem gambler who lost $330,000 at a British Columbia casino has failed again in her attempt to sue the province's gambling agency over its inability to keep her out of trouble. Joy Ross sued the B.C. Lottery Corp. after … Continue reading →
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| PQ, Liberals in tight race as Quebec election campaign gets underway Posted: 05 Mar 2014 07:47 AM PST  It's official: On Wednesday morning, Quebec Premier Pauline Marois met with her province's Lieutenant-Governor to dissolve the National Assembly. Quebecers will cast their votes on April 7th. Marois told reporters that after 18 months as a minority government, her Parti … Continue reading →
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| Daycare suspends 2-year-old girl over cheese sandwich Posted: 05 Mar 2014 12:52 PM PST  An Ottawa father is looking to move his children out of their daycare over its strict "no outside food" policy, after his daughter was suspended for three days for bringing a cheese sandwich to class.
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| Loretta Saunders vigil draws hundreds to Parliament Hill Posted: 05 Mar 2014 09:52 AM PST Hundreds of people gathered at a vigil on Parliament Hill in memory of Loretta Saunders, an Inuk student living in Halifax who was found slain on the side of a New Brunswick highway last week.  |
| Russia-Ukraine crisis causes Vancouver gas prices to spike Posted: 05 Mar 2014 04:44 PM PST Experts say spiking gas prices in Metro Vancouver can be partially blamed on the ongoing security crisis in Ukraine.  |
| New book on Mike Duffy chronicles suspended senator's rise, fall Posted: 05 Mar 2014 02:41 PM PST  Rob Ford and Mike Duffy were probably the biggest political stories of 2013. While the Ford star continues to shine brightly, Duffy has seemingly fallen off the media's radar. Well, if you've missed him, this is the week to get … Continue reading →
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| Cisco picks Toronto as one of 4 global innovation hubs Posted: 05 Mar 2014 03:36 PM PST  Toronto will be the site of a $100-million global innovation centre dedicated to the "internet of everything," Cisco Systems Inc. has announced.
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| OPP agree to oversee investigation involving Rob Ford Posted: 05 Mar 2014 09:35 AM PST  A Toronto police investigation involving Mayor Rob Ford will have provincial oversight after Chief Bill Blair requested the Ontario Provincial Police get involved in the tempestuous case. In an announcement released on Wednesday, Blair requested OPP Commissioner Chris Lewis provide … Continue reading →
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| Lev Tahor members leave Canada before appeal, email reveals Posted: 05 Mar 2014 04:46 PM PST  CHATHAM, Ont. - Two families in an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect whose children were ordered removed from their custody have left Canada before a court here could decide whether to execute that order, according to an email obtained by The Canadian Press. An Ontario judge ordered last month that 13 Lev Tahor children be turned over to child protection authorities in Quebec, where the community had previously been based, and where a court had ordered they be placed in foster care. An appeal of that order was scheduled to be heard Wednesday in Chatham, Ont., but instead a lawyer for the local children's aid authority brought an emergency motion, which prompted a closed-door hearing with the judge. The Canadian Press obtained an email from a member of the community to supporters, detailing how two of the families at the centre of the order left Canada ahead of an appeal.
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| Calgary bus driver fired after picking up kids in her own car when school bus wouldn’t start Posted: 05 Mar 2014 08:14 AM PST  There is something about the morning school routine that triggers something deep inside of us. These daily acts of getting our children safely from home to school, their first forays into negotiation the outside world without direct supervision, they are … Continue reading →
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| Marois announces April 7 election as pro-independence PQ chases majority mandate Posted: 05 Mar 2014 08:45 PM PST  MONTREAL - Quebecers will go the polls next month with the Parti Quebecois chasing a majority government that could eventually march the province toward another independence referendum. Premier Pauline Marois, first elected to a minority mandate 18 months ago, announced the April 7 vote Wednesday after meeting with her cabinet. Flanked by PQ MNAs inside the national assembly, Marois read a statement that listed what she described as her government's accomplishments since defeating Jean Charest's Liberals in September 2012. Recent polls have suggested her pro-independence party could capture a majority, thanks in large part to significant support from Quebec's ever-important francophone voters.
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| Quebec calls election, raising prospect of independence drive Posted: 05 Mar 2014 10:30 AM PST  By Randall Palmer OTTAWA (Reuters) - Quebec's separatist government moved to capitalize on a lead in the polls on Wednesday, launching a provincial election it hopes will result in a majority government that could eventually lead to a third referendum on independence from Canada. "It is necessary to put an end to the obstruction of our opponents," Premier Pauline Marois of the Parti Quebecois (PQ), who has headed a minority government for the past 18 months, said in triggering the April 7 election. ...
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| Toronto police chief hands off case linked to embattled mayor Posted: 05 Mar 2014 01:48 PM PST  By Allison Martell TORONTO (Reuters) - Ontario authorities have agreed to a request from Toronto's police chief to supervise an investigation that has already resulted in extortion charges against an alleged drug dealer and associate of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, a probe the mayor contends is politically motivated. Toronto Police have declined to say much about Ford's role, if any, in the case against his friend and occasional driver, Sandro Lisi. But police documents released last fall showed that the mayor, now running for re-election, had been under surveillance for months. His admission of drug use came days after Toronto Police Chief Bill Blair said his force, during an earlier investigation called Project Traveler, had obtained a video featuring the mayor that was consistent with media reports about a video clip showing Ford appearing to smoking crack.
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