Federal government starts handing out new funding to settle refugees
OTTAWA (NEWS 1130) – The federal government has begun allocating millions of dollars in funding for Syrian refugees. Immigration Minister John McCallum says groups who have formal contracts with the...
View ArticleThe cost of groceries going up next year: Report
GUELPH, ON. (NEWS 1130) – The average household in Canada will spend $8,631 on groceries and restaurant meals next year, up by $345 because of food inflation, according to a new report. The University...
View ArticleCanada on track to welcome 10,000 Syrian refugees by years end
OTTAWA, ON. (NEWS 1130) – Federal Immigration Minister John McCallum says Canada is still on track to welcome 10,000 Syrian refugees by the end of the year. He suggests dozens more planeloads of...
View ArticleRefugee arrivals set to ramp up to average two planes a day: minister
TORONTO (NEWS 1130) – Multiple government flights of Syrian refugees will land daily in the final weeks of this month as the pace of the Liberals’ resettlement program intensifies with a goal of...
View ArticleTens of thousands of Syrian refugees about to call Canada home
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Even when they are accepted into Canada, these refugees will still have a hard time dealing with several problems. Volunteers by the thousands have pledged to help Syrian...
View ArticleCPP changes in 2016
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Pensioners are getting a small raise in 2016. Canada Pension Plan payments will increase by 1.2 per cent for those already receiving benefits. The maximum retirement CPP benefit...
View ArticleCanada falls to Sweden in final preliminary game
HELSINKI — Alexander Nylander and Gustav Forsling had a goal and an assist each as Sweden beat Canada 5-2 on Thursday in the final game of the preliminary round at the world junior hockey championship....
View ArticleTeam Canada comes up short in WJHC quarterfinal
HELSINKI, FINLAND (NEWS 1130) – Team Canada’s dreams of a 2nd consecutive gold medal were dashed on Saturday in a 6-5 quarter final loss to Finland at the World Junior Hockey Championship. A late game...
View ArticleCanadian fighter jets already attacking ISIL positions in 2016
OTTAWA (NEWS 1130) – Canadian fighter jets taking part in the US-led coalition air campaign against the Islamic State have been busy in the start of the new year. On the first two days of 2016,...
View ArticleCanadian labour market resilient in 2015 despite economic setbacks
OTTAWA (NEWS 1130) – In a tough year that saw the economy recoil over its first half, the country’s job market still produced its best result in three years, Statistics Canada data has revealed. On...
View ArticlePolice looking for three men seen taking pictures, video in Pacific Centre
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Vancouver Police are looking for your help in finding three men seen taking photographs and video inside one of Western Canada’s busiest malls. Police say on Tuesday evening,...
View ArticleFeds seek more cities to take Syrian refugees, but may only pay until next year
OTTAWA – More Canadian cities could soon see Syrian refugees coming their way, but the federal funds to help support them will only last until March 2017. The surge in Syrian refugee arrivals has now...
View ArticleHottest average global temperature ever recorded didn’t apply to Canada in 2015
OTTAWA – Call it cold comfort, but Atlantic Canada was one of the only regions on the planet that had cooler-than-average temperatures last year, according to Environment Canada. On a day when NASA...
View ArticleWhy the stock market is tanking right now, and what comes next
TORONTO – Look around the global market place and you’d be hard pressed to find anywhere in the green. Out of hundreds of major global indices, fewer than 20 are positive; you have to look to Slovakia...
View ArticleDeclining applications a trend at journalism schools: local instructor
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Applications to journalism schools are down across the country, according to a local instructor. This comes as major media companies make big job cuts, citing declining revenue....
View ArticleIndigenous affairs minister to look into rejected residential school cases
OTTAWA – Indigenous Affairs Minister Carolyn Bennett says she will look into the cases of some residential school students who were disqualified for compensation by a technicality. The minister’s move...
View ArticleCanada to end airstrikes against ISIS
OTTAWA (NEWS 1130) – Canada’s fighter jets will end their fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria within the next two weeks. The last Canadian bombs will fall by February 22nd but the...
View ArticleRight wing extremism is alive and well in BC: SFU study
VANCOUVER (NEWS 1130) – Right wing extremists are flourishing in BC, Alberta and Quebec according to a new study out of SFU. Co-author of the report, Ryan Scrivens says while these groups aren’t likely...
View ArticleUS duty-free exemption for online purchases is now more than 40 times Canada’s
WASHINGTON (NEWS 1130) – Americans are now allowed to spend more than 40 times as much as their northern neighbours without paying duty on products shipped from abroad, as a result of a new law. Last...
View ArticleCanada needs to establish seat-size standards: passenger advocate
HALIFAX (NEWS 1130) – An airline passenger advocate says Canada should look at establishing seat-size standards for commercial airlines. Gabor Lukacs was reacting to an attempt by American Sen. Charles...
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