OTTAWA — Canada’s telecom regulator says the average household spent nearly $223 every month on communications services, including mobile phones, landlines, internet and cable TV in 2016. But low-income households are spending exponentially more than higher income earners as a percentage of their income, according to the CRTC’s latest Communications Monitoring Report. The snapshot of…
According to her older sister Sahima, Shamima Begum was like any other 15-year-old girl, with the same hobbies, the same worries and infatuations which preoccupy the minds of most British teens. “She was into normal teenage things,” Sahima said. “She used to watch Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” At 15, Shamima’s young mind was filled…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says his office did not leak details of a reported split between himself and his former justice minister over a Supreme Court appointment. But Trudeau would not say Thursday if he would support an investigation into how the media obtained confidential information about the appointment process — a probe Jody Wilson-Raybould…
When a lottery scammer based in Jamaica targeted a 90-year-old American man, he thought he had hit the jackpot. It just so happened that fraudster Keniel Thomas’ would-be victim was none other than William Webster, the only man to lead both the FBI and the CIA. When Mr Webster, who is now 94, and his…
OTTAWA — “We expect the CPPIB, like other Crown corporations, to live up to the highest standards of ethics and behaviour and that is, in fact, exactly what it is doing.” — Finance Minister Bill Morneau during question period Monday in the House of Commons. — The New Democrats challenged Morneau this week to weigh…
Stacey Abrams has become the first black woman to deliver a Democratic response to a State of the Union address, and her selection has been seen as a nod to the party’s future. Introducing herself to the nation, the 45-year-old lawyer combined her party’s vision of a more unified society with her personal story as a…
A majority of Canadians believe a person’s financial lot in life is largely due to factors beyond their control and not a reflection of how much effort they’ve put into changing their situation, a new poll suggests. According to the second part of an Angus Reid Institute study on poverty in Canada, most Canadians agree…
The US Senate has approved President Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee William Barr, putting the veteran Republican lawyer in charge of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of any ties between Mr Trump’s campaign and Russia. The vote was 54-45, primarily on a party-line basis with most Republicans backing the 68-year-old and most Democrats opposed. Democrats had expressed concern over…
Parisa Fitz-Henley’s looks aren’t the only thing she has in common with Meghan Markle. In a new interview, the actress who plays the royal-to-be in Lifetime’s “Harry & Meghan: A Royal Romance” said she and Markle “have a lot of similar life experiences.” “I think I’m a much sillier person than she seems to be,”…
Imagine a Canada where public schools and urban infrastructure are crumbling, the economy runs through constant boom-and-bust cycles, and ideological demagogues run rampant in the political arena. Some more pessimistic readers might say that, to some extent, this Canada already exists. Others might note the parallels to the situation in the U.S. today. To Lars…