OTTAWA — A federal spending watchdog says it could cost federal coffers more than $76 billion a year to provide a national, guaranteed minimum income similar to the one being tested in Ontario. The parliamentary budget officer says the federal government would have to find about $43.1 billion to cover the full cost of the…
Rescue crews in Spain have found the body of a two-year-old boy, whose fall into a deep borehole 13 days earlier prompted a complex and heart-wrenching search-and-rescue operation that had the country holding its breath. Julen Rosello fell down the narrow 360-foot -deep borehole on January 13 while his family was preparing a countryside Sunday lunch. Adding…
Jack Shepherd, the speedboat killer, will not face immediate extradition back to the UK, a Georgian court has heard. In an emergency hearing called by the prosecution, Shepherd appeared in Tblisi City Court where it was decided he would face the standard extradition procedure, meaning it will take several months to return him to the…
The slowdown in Canada’s residential real estate market may now be spreading to the rental market, with rents falling in many cities after a prolonged period of rapid growth. That could be good news for renters in Toronto and Vancouver, where rents were rising at double-digit rates in recent years, and where few vacant apartments…
Click:glitter cannon VANCOUVER — Anti-pipeline protesters have made a calculated effort to blockade two Trans Mountain work sites in Burnaby, says a British Columbia Supreme Court judge who scrapped a 10-minute pre-arrest warning and expanded an injunction to include other facilities used by the company. Justice Kenneth Affleck said Friday he would have some sympathy…
Justin Trudeau, the Canadian Prime Minister, has accused China of "arbitrarily" using capital punishment after it sentenced a Canadian citizen to death on drug trafficking charges. The case has increased tensions between the two countries, coming weeks after Canada arrested Meng Wanzhou, a top Chinese telecoms executive, at the request of the US. Robert Lloyd…
A Canadian company is looking to extract copper and other minerals from the site of a former mine that was, until recently, within the boundary of Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument and off limits to such development. The land was part of one of two protected sites in southern Utah that U.S. President Donald Trump removed…
Egypt has repatriated an artefact that had been illegally smuggled to the UK and put up for auction, the country’s Antiquities Ministry has announced. The relief with cartouche of King Amenhotep I from the 18th dynasty had been on display at a London auction house. The Antiquities Ministry said the relief was originally exhibited at the…
Click:trendsetting fashion A security firm run by Erik Prince has drawn criticism with plans to build a training centre in Xinjiang, a far-western province where Uighur Muslims have been rounded up and forced into internment camps. Frontier Services Group, a Hong Kong-listed security and logistics firm, inked a deal with the Kashgar Caohu Industrial Park,…
OTTAWA — The national broadcast regulator says online giants like Netflix and Spotify should be forced to open their wallets to pay to create local content before Canadians see losses of jobs, services and content. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission says in a new report the federal government should consider regulating any online video…