Video Pauline Marois says Montreal mayor should resign

The Globe and Mail - Monday 17th June, 2013

Quebec Premier Pauline Marois says Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum has no choice but to resign after being charged with fraud. Marois says Montreal will not be placed under provincial trusteeship like neighbouring ...

B.C. wants truce with Ontario Quebec on film tax credits

The Globe and Mail - Monday 17th June, 2013

B.C.'s Finance Minister is challenging his counterparts in Ontario and Quebec to stop allowing Hollywood studios to pit the three provinces against each other for "unaffordable" film tax credits."As a country, and individual provinces within the country, we are better off to stop competing to see who can send the biggest cheque to Hollywood," Mike de Jong said ...

Elections Canada witness blasts Tory MP for bullying tactics

The Globe and Mail - Monday 17th June, 2013

A witness who is helping Elections Canada unravel a Conservative MP's 2008 campaign expenses says he has been publicly bullied, discredited and intimidated.Frank Hall, who ran an Ottawa-based polling firm that did work for Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro, has written to both the Speaker of the House of Commons and the Prime Minister, saying Mr. Del Mastro has abused the concept of ...

Canadian stock market higher ahead of Fed meeting

Global Times - Monday 17th June, 2013

The Canadian stock market was higher Monday as optimism that the US Federal Reserve may not taper off its bond-buying stimulus program spurred big gains in energy and financial shares.The benchmark S&P/TSX Composite Index grew 101.54 points, or 0. 83 percent, to close at 12288.90, recovering some of its 1.5 percent loss last week, while the S&P/TSX Venture Composite Index increased 1.86, ...

Mayor of Montreal arrested

Fox 23 - Monday 17th June, 2013

MONTREAL (AP) — A spokeswoman for Quebec's anti-corruption unit says Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum has been arrested.Anne-Frederick Laurence said Monday Applebaum was arrested at his home early Monday. She gave no other detailsAnti-corruption officials raided city hall last February. They also targeted offices in various boroughs, including the one Applebaum represented for many ...

Korean Air Increases Frequency to Canada and China

Travel Blackboard - Monday 17th June, 2013

Korean Air, South Korea’s flagship airline, has announced to increase frequency on its routes to Canada and China. From 20 June, the current five flights a week between Seoul/Incheon and Vancouver will be increased to daily flights, with flights to Toronto also increased to daily from 24 June. The flights between Seoul/Incheon and the Chinese destination Jinan will increase from four ...

Union Station revamp wont be complete until 2016

CBC News - Monday 17th June, 2013

It will be another three years before the revitalization of Toronto's Union Station is complete, though officials say the work is being completed on budget. More than $600 million is being spent to make the city's downtown transit hub more accessible, more up to date and more functional for the tens of thousands of people who pass through its doors each day. While the work is taking ...

Deaf Russian painter refused permanent residency in Canada because he failed verbal language tests

National Post - Monday 17th June, 2013

A Russian painter, deaf since birth, has been refused permanent residency in Canada because he did not meet the language proficiency requirement when tested verbally, despite getting near perfect scores when tested using sign language. The decision to reject Dmitri Smirnov's bid to remain in Canada because he did not meet listening and speaking language requirements angered deaf advocates ...

Montreal’s anti-corruption mayor arrested on fraud allegations

Tribune Review - Monday 17th June, 2013

Applebaum took over as interim mayor of Canada's second-largest city in November, after Gerald Tremblay resigned amid corruption ...

Mayor of Montreal arrested

WHP CBS 21 - Monday 17th June, 2013

MONTREAL (AP) — A spokeswoman for Quebec's anti-corruption unit says Montreal Mayor Michael Applebaum has been arrested.Anne-Frederick Laurence said Monday Applebaum was arrested at his home early Monday. She gave no other detailsAnti-corruption officials raided city hall last February. They also targeted offices in various boroughs, including the one Applebaum represented for many ...

Ontario union may ask Trudeau for speech refund

The Globe and Mail - Monday 17th June, 2013

Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau asks a question during Question Period in the House of Commons on June 13, 2013. Trudeau says he will offer to return a $20,000 speaking fee he received for speaking at a money-losing fundraising event last year for a New Brunswick charity. (Sean Kilpatrick/THE CANADIAN ...

Americans slowly realizing importance of Canadian oil outgoing ambassador to Canada says

The Globe and Mail - Monday 17th June, 2013

Attitudes toward Canada's oil have shifted dramatically in the United States in recent years, as Americans increasingly view it as a key part of their own energy independence, outgoing U.S. Ambassador to Canada David Jacobson says.After four years in Ottawa, Mr. Jacobson steps down from his post next month with the fate of a key piece of cross-border energy politics, the Keystone XL ...

Blackhawks Marian Hossa scratched for Game 3

CBC News - Monday 17th June, 2013

The Chicago Blackhawks have scratched forward Marian Hossa from Monday night's Stanley Cup final game against the Boston Bruins. Hossa was tied for the team lead with 15 points in the playoffs. He was third in the regular season on the Blackhawks with 17 goals. The Blackhawks said on their Twitter account that "something apparently happened during warmups." Ben Smith was in the ...

Charges laid over case of Grey Cup ring

CBC News - Monday 17th June, 2013

Police in Regina say they have laid several charges over an investigation that just happened to lead them to a missing Grey Cup ring. Former Saskatchewan Roughrider star Matt Dominguez was missing the memento of his playing days after leaving it in the centre console of his vehicle. He had taken the ring off and, in the rush of the day, forgot he had left it behind. When he returned to his ...

Arctic research station design incorporates Inuit knowledge

CBC News - Monday 17th June, 2013

Inuit knowledge and culture have played major roles in the design and function of the $142 million High Arctic Research Station planned for Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. Architects working on the project, which will be one of the largest buildings in Nunavut, unveiled their plans to the community last week. In 2010, the federal government chose the hamlet for the site of Canada's newest ...

Cancer society urges tougher anti-smoking laws

CBC News - Monday 17th June, 2013

The Canadian Cancer Society is calling on the B.C. government to tighten its anti-smoking regulations, in an effort to cut the smoking rate from 14 to 9 per cent over the next five years. The campaign comes on the 50th anniversary of the landmark declaration by Canada's Health Minister Judy LaMarsh that "smoking is a contributory cause of lung cancer". The statement came at a ...

Quebec white-collar workers angry with cuts

CBC News - Monday 17th June, 2013

The union representing Quebec City's white-collar workers says its members are angry with plans to cut about five per cent of the city's workforce over the next five years. Yesterday, Quebec City mayor Rgis Labeaume announced his administration would be cutting at least 250 jobs. The vice president of the union representing Quebec City's white-collar workers, Linda Blanger, says ...

Mountie knew what he was doing when he killed his wife court hears

C News - Monday 17th June, 2013

EDMONTON - A psychiatrist says a delusional former Mountie who shot his wife to death should be found criminally responsible because he knew what he was doing was wrong. Dr. Lenka Zedkova testified Monday that while she accepts Tirth Sehmbi, 39, was suffering from delusions at the time of the July 10, 2010, slaying of Rajpinder Sehmbi, 29, she believes he was still able to appreciate the nature ...

North Vancouver donations save Filipina baristas life

Vancouver Sun - Monday 17th June, 2013

Janette Camba, while still working at a North Vancouver Tim Hortons, raises money to fund her own kidney operation. She has since had a surgery to receive a donated kidney from her sister and is expected to fully ...

Cult of Hockey Jose Canseco blasts Toronto shock jock over Pelss remark

Edmonton Journal - Monday 17th June, 2013

The fracas over Toronto shock jock Dean Blundell’s comments about the death of Edmonton Oilers prospect Kristiasn Pelss is not going away, withJose Canseco, the former Major League Baseball star, ...

Canada struggles to shed last vestige of the notorious litterbug cigarette butts

National Post - Monday 17th June, 2013

Decades after the litterbug was otherwise beaten, Canadian cities are preparing for the end game: Cigarette butts. The stubby end of a smoke has becomeCanada’s number one litter problem, with 416,955 picked up in the 2012 Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup ...

Ko back to defend CN Canadian Womens Open title

The Globe and Mail - Monday 17th June, 2013

Defending champion Lydia Ko headlines a list of six past winners in the field for the 2013 CN Canadian Women's Open this summer.The 16-year-old New Zealander has accepted an exemption to try and win back-to-back Canadian titles this August at the Royal Mayfair Golf Club in Edmonton. Last year, Ko became the youngest ever winner of an LPGA Tour event when she captured the title at the ...