Canadian Rail Strike Ends as Parties Agree to Arbitration
OTTAWA — A strike by about 3,000 locomotive engineers and conductors at the Canadian Pacific Railway unexpectedly ended on Monday, its second day, as both sides agreed to arbitration. The…
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Canadian Pacific Railway Engineers Go on Strike as Negotiations Break Down
OTTAWA — About 3,000 locomotive engineers and conductors at the Canadian Pacific Railway walked off the job early Sunday morning in a dispute over wages and benefits. Although the company…
American Woman Confessed To Valentine’s Day Massacre Plot In Halifax: Canada Police
Canadian police have foiled a plot by three suspects who were planning to go to a mall in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and kill as many people as they could before…
Halifax Attack Foiled By Canadian Police
Canadian police said Friday they’ve foiled a plan by at least two suspects to kill people in a public place in the Halifax-area – Canadian Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney…
Canadian Al-Jazeera Journalist Mohamed Fahmy Released From Egyptian Prison
Canadian Al-Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy has been released from an Egyptian prison, pending a retrial. – Australian Peter Greste, who was tried with his two colleagues, was deported home to…
Egyptian Judge Orders Release Of Al-Jazeera English Journalists
An Egyptian judge has ordered the release of two Al-Jazeera English journalists, demanding that the Canadian defendant pay a $33,000 bail, pending their retrial. The judge ordered the release of…
Canada Seeks to Strengthen Spy Agency After Attacks
OTTAWA — Citing the attacks by radical Islamists that killed two Canadian soldiers in October and the more recent assaults in France, Prime Minister Stephen Harper introduced sweeping legislation on…
Frozen feat: Adventurer climbs icy walls of Niagara Falls
The Canadian ice climber used only ice hooks to scale the frozen cliffs at Terrapin Point, a 147-foot section directly next to Horseshoe Falls. – Scaling the falls is the…
Canadian Soldiers Exchange Fire With ISIS In Iraq
Canadian soldiers opened fire on Islamic State group extremists in Iraq over the last week in what a general called an act of self-defense. – He says that while Canadian…
Woe Canada! Many U.S. retailers fail up north
Antony Karabus, CEO of HRC Advisory, a retail consulting firm in Toronto, said some of these American retail chains expanded too aggressively. In some cases, there just simply wasn’t a…
Third Ottawa man remains in custody on terror-related charges
Suliman Mohamed, 21, stood watching the court proceedings before being remanded into custody. He wore a brown-colored, hooded jacket and was carefully watched by his parents, sitting in the front…