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A town council in Nova Scotia has decided not to reprimand a veteran councillor, police board member and mayoral candidate who admitted to using a racial slur. George Baker is a councillor in Amherst, a town of nearly 10,000 near the New Brunswick border. Baker, who is white, admits he said...

Finance Canada, the Privy Council Office and Treasury Board Secretariat actually do? Well, wonder no more ........ Calgary Homeless Foundation » Ten things to know about central agencies in Canada

The provincial government is on the offensive after facing tough backlash regarding a lawsuit they brought forward late last month against several energy companies. The NDP government faced almost immediate criticism from the Wildrose Party, the PC party of Alberta and the likes of Calgary...

Police found a handwritten “murder-suicide” note in a Pennsylvania home where a family of five, including a toddler who underwent a heart transplant a week after birth, was found dead of gunshot wounds, prosecutors said Sunday. Mark Short was 40 and his wife was 33. Their three children were...

A coroner has issued his recommendations after the body of an elderly woman was found one in a St. Jean sur Richelieu seniors' home a week after her death. The body of Jeannine Benjamin, 85, was found by a maintenance worker at the Chartwell Oasis St. Jean on May 14, 2015. While she died...

New research seems to prove the theory that brainy people spend more time lazing around than their active counterparts. Findings from a US-based study seem to support the idea that people with a high IQ get bored less easily, leading them to spend more time engaged in thought. And active...

I believe that the Ontario Liberal government, should it win re-election in 2018. is planning to privatize the LCBO, surely one of our crown jewels, given the huge profits that go into the provincial treasure each year. Indeed, in fiscal 2013-2014, it made a record profit of $1.74 billion, more...

At its height, "the Street of Shame" - as it was dubbed by some - was the pinnacle of a journalist's career, with nearly every national paper and several provincial newspapers having offices within a half-mile radius. Reporters Gavin Sherriff and Darryl Smith worked for the Dundee-based Sunday...

An Ontario winery has won its battle against a provincially regulated body over whether it can put its Prince Edward County location on its website. The Old Third Vineyard was established more than a decade ago in Hillier, Ont., on the western side of Prince Edward County, one of Ontario's...

The survey found that a majority of respondents considered six conditions as bad as or worse than death: Bowel and bladder incontinence, cited by about 70 percent as equally as bad as or worse than death; Reliance on a breathing machine, cited by about 70 percent of respondents; Inability to...

After four months without an MPP, citizens of Scarborough–Rouge River will head to the polls in a Sept. 1 byelection that has been unofficially underway all summer. Premier Kathleen Wynne set the date Wednesday in the wake of veteran Liberal Bas Balkissoon’s sudden resignation March 22 – the...

When Ontario Northland motorcoach driver Trevor Holliday started a petition in March calling for Northern Ontario's independence, he never envisaged becoming the leader of a political party with the aim of making it a reality. That’s exactly what happened within only a season. “I go from...

The family of Kenneth Walker, North Tonawanda’s only black firefighter, whose home was burned down Wednesday in what was feared to be a racially motivated attack, was stunned to learn that a neighbor and fellow former firefighter was arrested for the arson. They were also shocked when they...

He remained involved in political activism throughout the '70s through the '90s. An economic nationalist, he was a founding member of the Committee for an Independent Canada, the Council of Canadians and led the National Party of Canada. Describing him as a "Canadian nationalist of a rare ...

What could possibly go wrong? At the time of Mr. Harper’s visit to Rideau Hall, he was thought by the entire political commentariat to be the Smartest Man in Canada, and his idea of an 11-week election campaign was seen as a stroke of pure political genius. It was the longest campaign in...

Follow Laval on his trek across the Atlantic Thank you for coming alongside me and supporting my efforts in helping the Alberta Cancer Foundation make life better for the 43 Albertans who are diagnosed with cancer every day. Every dollar raised will make a difference for cancer patients across...

Two Canadian companies have reached a $2.5 million settlement with a Manitoba teen who is disabled for life because he consumed ground beef tainted with E. coli in July 2004. Court documents say the boy was two-and-a-half years old when his mother fed him the meat, which she bought at...

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OPP pulled over a silver sports car doing 149 kilometres in a 100-kilometre zone on Highway 11 southbound just before 6 p.m., June 23. The officer determined the driver Paul Primeau, 52, of Sudbury, was intoxicated, said Crown attorney Lyndsay Jeanes. Later at the...

Plastic bag use has plummeted in England since the introduction of a 5p charge last year, the government has said. In the six months after the levy was brought in last October 640 million plastic bags were used in seven major supermarkets in England, it says. In 2014, the waste reduction...