News/Canada (Page 18)

Canada From the long journey home for The Roaring Lion in Ottawa to the Grey Cup festival in Vancouver, here are some of the best Canadian images of the past week. Highlights include a famous portrait’s homecoming and football festivitiesCBC News · Posted: Nov 16, 2024 2:26 PM EST |Continue Reading

Canada Nearly three years after its brazen theft, an iconic photo of the late former British prime minister Winston Churchill — grimace and all — is finally back where it belongs on the wall of the Fairmont Château Laurier hotel in Ottawa. ‘I’m just beyond proud,’ says hotel spokesperson atContinue Reading

The Canada Revenue Agency is on a “witch hunt” to find whistleblowers who may have spoken to the media and exposed how it has been repeatedly duped into paying out millions in bogus refunds to scammers, according to sources. “The consensus is that management is nervous,” one source said. “AnyContinue Reading

Canada Some Scotiabank customers are still unable to access their online banking accounts after what the company called “scheduled maintenance” turned into a service outage that crept into Wednesday, sparking online anger and a proposed class action lawsuit. Many customers were unable to even see their credit card accounts orContinue Reading

Canada In a world where women can buy a “Just in Case” sports bra with a hidden pocket for weapons, or download the “bSafe” app with a voice-activated SOS alarm, you’d be forgiven for not realizing the “AwarePod,” as the Canadian Women’s Foundation dubbed its new campaign, is satire. Two-thirds of Canadian women say they’ve feltContinue Reading

Canada U.S. president-elect Donald Trump’s border czar says there is an “extreme national security vulnerability” along the Canada-U.S. border that he plans to deal with the moment the new Republican administration takes power. Irregular crossings into the U.S. rising, creating friction Jorge Barrera · CBC News · Posted: Nov 13, 2024Continue Reading

A Mississauga, Ont., couple is in the midst of a war of words with their townhouse complex’s board of directors — which a handful of residents say is imposing unnecessarily strict new rules on the complex’s roughly 140 homeowners. Janet Kitson said her problems began in 2022, when some new membersContinue Reading

Robert Harris leans out the cockpit canopy of an Avro Lancaster bomber, his left arm resting casually on the sliding window’s guide, a slight smile testing the corner of his Clark Gable moustache. He would be shot down over Germany in the same type of plane only weeks before the end of theContinue Reading

Canada changes air cargo rules after alleged Russian sabotage plot The federal government says it is ‘deeply concerned’ about allegations that Russia plotted to put incendiary devices on cargo and passenger planes flying to North America. Ottawa has told Moscow ‘any threat to the safey and security of Canadians isContinue Reading