Ontario Ban on Door-to-Door Sales in Effect as of March 1st. The province’s ban on door-to-door sale of certain services and appliances came into effect Thursday. The ban, which has been long discussed by the Ontario government, comes after Ontarians have flooded the government’s consumer protection officials with complaints about salespeople...
Pet pig adopted from BC SPCA killed and eaten by new owners. This is the story of Molly, a rescued Vietnamese potbelly pig recently adopted by a BC couple who promptly slaughtered and ate her. Naturally, some people are angry. The RCMP have said they are not investigating the couple who...
Quebec City dumped about 46 million litres of raw sewage into the St. Lawrence River over 12 hours in order to do scheduled maintenance work on a pumping station, the city said Friday. A spokesperson for the city said everything went as planned. The city said earlier this week that neglecting...
Melina Roberge, a 24-year-old woman who was one of three Quebecers charged with smuggling drugs into Australia has pleaded guilty to importing cocaine in commercial quantities. Melina Roberge pleaded guilty in a Sydney court on Friday, according to a spokeswoman for the New South Wales District Court, and is due...
Joseph Stroup, who went by Joop Cousteau, owes $560K in child support and had been on the run for 20 years. Joseph Stroup fled arrest in 1998, at some point arriving in Alberta, Canada. Known there as Joop Cousteau, he got to know staff at a now-closed bar called the...
Rachel Notley warns of new measures next week if no progress in B.C. pipeline talks. That province has until next week to step back from its threat to reduce bitumen shipments, or Alberta will come at its western neighbours with guns blazing. “Albertans are only so patient. We do have other...
Canadian speedskater Kim Boutin threatened after bronze-medal win. Tuesday's women's 500-meter short track speed skating final in the Pyeonchang Winter Games ended in a photo finish and some brutal outrage. Italian skater Arianna Fontana won the event in a heated race with the hosting-country's favorite Choi Minjeong, which was close enough...
All passengers died after SUV crashed into tractor trailer near Parry Sound. The crash happened at about 4 p.m. on Highway 69 in Shawanaga First Nation, about 15 kilometres north of Parry Sound, said Sgt. Carlo Berardi of Ontario Provincial Police. A northbound SUV crossed the centre line and collided with...
Bruce MacArthur, the Canadian landscaper accused of slaying five gay lovers, not only stashed his victims in landscape planters, but also may have feasted on them. Cops believe sicko McArthur, 66, may have cannibalized his victims before concealing the rest of their remains in planters outside more than two-dozen homes...
Canadians will have to wait until late in the summer before they will be able to legally consume cannabis under a new timeline laid out by the federal government – even if the Senate votes in favour of the legislation by May or June. Ottawa now says it will give...