Canada: Spike in mumps continues in Manitoba
Apr 13, 2017, at 05:27 am
Toronto, Apr 12 (IBNS): The number of mumps in Manitoba could hit 600 before its disappearance, said Richard Rusk, Provincial medical officer of health.
Canada: International activist Malala Yousafzai to receive honorary citizenship
Apr 13, 2017, at 02:27 am
Toronto, Apr 12 (IBNS): Nobel Peace Prize winner and a brutal Taliban attack survivor, Malala Yousafzai would receive honorary citizenship today during a formal ceremony in Ottawa before she addresses the House of Commons, media reports said.
Affordable housing is not a distant dream, says Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne
Apr 12, 2017, at 10:46 pm
Toronto, Apr 12 (IBNS): Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne said recently that her government will soon rein in the soaring prices seen in the Toronto area housing market.
Canada imposes new air security measures
Apr 12, 2017, at 10:36 pm
Toronto, April 12 (IBNS) Transport Canada, the federal transportation governing body of Canada, imposed new airlines security measures on certain Canada-bound flights on Tuesday.
Canada: NASA’s MAVEN spacecraft detects metal ions in upper atmosphere
Apr 12, 2017, at 10:17 pm
Toronto, Apr 12 (IBNS): NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN) spacecraft has detected metal ions in the upper atmosphere (ionosphere) of a planet other than Earth, media reports quoted said Joseph Grebowsky as saying recently.
US: Man forcibly dragged off overbooked flight
Apr 11, 2017, at 03:32 pm
Washington, Apr 11 (IBNS): United Airlines has triggered an outrage after a video was posted which showed a man was dragged off a plane as it was overbooked.
Bank of Canada unveils new $10 banknote to celebrate Canada's 150th anniversary
Apr 11, 2017, at 03:55 am
Toronto, Apr 10 (IBNS): The $10 commemorative banknote for Canada's 150 celebrations was unveiled recently at the Bank of Canada in Ottawa, media reports said.
Canada: Large number of icebergs affect North Atlantic’s shipping lanes
Apr 11, 2017, at 03:49 am
Toronto, Apr 10 (IBNS): During the past week more than 400 icebergs have drifted into the North Atlantic shipping lanes, consequently slowing down the ships to a mere crawling or forced them to change their directions to hundreds of miles, media reports said.
Canada: Saskatchewan announces elimination of hearing aid plan from the budget
Apr 10, 2017, at 11:44 pm
Toronto, Apr 10 (IBNS): The Saskatchewan provincial government's announcement, made on budget day last month, about the elimination of hearing aid plan from the budget to save $3 million had been strongly protested by parents of deaf or hard of hearing children, media reports said.
Canada: Toronto experiences 73 percent spike in drug overdose deaths over the past decade
Apr 10, 2017, at 11:40 pm
Toronto, Apr 10 (IBNS): Six suspected cases of drug overdose and the death of a young woman in Toronto has caused great concern among law enforcement public health agencies regarding the safety of people in night clubs, media reports said.
Canada: Unemployment rate rose 0.1 percentage
Apr 09, 2017, at 11:13 pm
Toronto, Apr 9 (IBNS): Employment in Canada has little changed in March (+19,000 or +0.1%), while the unemployment rate rose 0.1 percentage points to 6.7% as more people searched for work, said Statistics Canada website.
Canada: Tookhar Tamasha Arts performance supports Project Udaan
Apr 08, 2017, at 09:28 pm
Toronto, Apr 8 (BNS): Performance of Tookhar Tamasha Arts earlier this week, to celebrate Canada’s 150 anniversary with local and overseas performers in their field and in support of Project Udaan (PU), was organized at Glenforest Secondary school in Mississauga, Ontario.
Canada: Snowy conditions and high winds cause power outages in Ontario
Apr 08, 2017, at 01:23 am
Toronto, Apr 7 (IBNS): A series of power outages across southern and eastern Ontario, due to heavy snow and high winds, were caused this morning, media reports said.
US strikes Syrian military base, Trump defends move as 'national security interest'
Apr 07, 2017, at 03:07 pm
Washington, Apr 7 (IBNS): The US government on Thursday launched at least 59 Tomahawk Missiles at the Syrian military airbase, reports said.
Spike in E. coli cases results in Canada-wide recall of Robin Hood flour
Apr 07, 2017, at 05:07 am
Toronto, Apr 6 (IBNS): Recent increase in cases diagnosed with E. coli O121 in Canada resulted in extending the original recall of 10-kilogram bags Robin Hood brand flour by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to (CFIA) to the entire Canada, media reports said.
Canada: Pearson Airport welcomes suggestion of Transit Hub
Apr 06, 2017, at 05:14 am
Toronto, Apr 5 (IBNS): Toronto Mayor John Tory on Tuesday morning held a discussion with Ontario Transportation Minister Steven Del Duca, Mississauga Mayor Bonnie Crombie, Brampton Mayor Linda Jeffrey and Kitchener Mayor Berry Vrbanovic about a regional transit hub at the Pearson International Airport in the Canadian city, media reports said.
Canada has maximum number of crying babies among countries
Apr 06, 2017, at 05:00 am
Toronto, Apr 5 (IBNS): A report of a meta-analysis of studies, conducted on about 8,700 infants in Canada, Germany, Denmark, Japan, Italy and the U.K by researchers at the University of Warwick, found that babies in Canada, Britain, Italy and the Netherlands cry more than babies in other countries.
Pandit Prodyut Mukherjee's percussion wizardry regales Toronto audience
Apr 05, 2017, at 06:56 pm
Toronto, April 5 (IBNS): Pandit Prodyut Mukherjee regaled the audience with his mastery over Tabla, an Indian musical instrument, at the third Tookhar Tamasha Art's music festival held in Mississauga, Ontario.
Canada: A Dutch court clears repatriation of Amanda’s cyberbully to Canada
Apr 05, 2017, at 12:22 am
Toronto, Apr 4 (IBNS): A Dutch court has convicted a cyberbully and sentenced him to nearly 11 years in prison for cyberbullying dozens of young girls and gay men., media reports said.
Ontario calls for equal pay for women
Apr 03, 2017, at 11:03 pm
Toronto, Apr 3 (IBNS): Indira Naidoo-Harris, Ontario’s Minister for the Status of Women, has said although women made up some 55 percent of the workforce within the public service, they take home about 12 percent less money than their male counterparts, media reports said.
Tory proposes vacant properties’ owners should be taxed
Apr 03, 2017, at 11:03 pm
Toronto, Apr 3 (IBNS): Toronto Mayor John Tory has suggested, in a recent meeting with experts in the real estate, banking, business and housing sectors, that in the wake of the recent increases in prices of houses in Toronto, taxes should be levied on the vacant houses, media reports said.
If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will, says Donald Trump
Apr 03, 2017, at 03:57 pm
Washington, Apr 3 (IBNS): Responding to nuclear threats from North Korea, US President Donald Trump has said that his government is going to take on the Kim Jong-un led nation, with or without the help of China.
193 people die as three rivers overflow in Columbia
Apr 02, 2017, at 06:40 pm
Columbia, Apr 2 (IBNS): At least 193 people died as an avalanche of water from three overflowing rivers flooded a small city in Colombia in the US, media reports said.
Canada: Federal, provincial and indigenous leaders develop action plan to support First Nations
Apr 02, 2017, at 06:10 pm
Toronto, Apr 2 (IBNS): A new agreement has been recently signed to plan for the First Nation community's future by Indigenous, federal and provincial leaders in Kashechewan, media reports said.
Bombardier chairman desires his salary increase to be reversed
Apr 02, 2017, at 04:52 pm
Toronto, Apr 2 (IBNS): Senior Quebec cabinet ministers said on Friday that citizens and elected officials had been shocked regarding increased executive pay of senior executives of Bombardier, media reports said.
Saskatchewan Premier invites oil and gas companies to relocate, Alberta takes offence
Apr 01, 2017, at 06:59 pm
Calgary, Apr 1 (IBNS): Brad Wall, Premier of Canada's Saskatchewan province, appears to have ruffled his counterpart from Alberta, Rachel Notley, by inviting a few Calgary-based oil and gas firms to relocated to Saskatchewan.
LGBTQ flag creator Gilbert Baker dies, aged 65
Apr 01, 2017, at 05:49 pm
New York City, Apr 1 (IBNS): Gilbert Baker, creator of the Rainbow flag, the symbol of the LGBTQ community, has died, reports said.
Toronto firm to undertake Hyperloops project to connect Calgary with Edmonton
Apr 01, 2017, at 04:39 pm
Calgary, Apr 01 (IBNS): A Toronto based new technology firm is likely to take up a project of Hyperloops, which is a proposed mode of passenger and freight transportation that would propel a pod-like vehicle through a reduced-pressure tube, to connect Calgary with Edmonton, said media reports.
Canada govt to invest 1.9 billion in GO train transit, Ontario welcomes decision
Apr 01, 2017, at 07:08 am
Toronto, Mar 31 (IBNS) The Federal Government in Canada will invest roughly $1.9 billion in the GO RER (Regional Express Railway) project thus upgrading the GO Transit train service, a move welcomed by Ontario.
Trump warns US companies against job loss, ahead of China meeting
Mar 31, 2017, at 02:46 pm
Washington, Mar 31 (IBNS): US President Donald Trump has urged American companies to look for other alternatives and has warned against any further job losses, ahead of next week's meeting with China.