HALIFAX—Canadians are using a multitude of social media platforms to explore and expand expression, according to an expert, who says we’re more digitally creative than ever before.
Social media always has been about communication but it hasn’t always been about content creation, noted Sidneyeve Matrix, a media professor at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont.
ATLANTA—Twelve nations, including Canada, have reached a tentative deal on a massive Pacific Rim trading bloc billed as the largest-ever deal of its kind, with implications for a staggering scope of industries, workers, and for long-term international relations between countries on four continents.
OTTAWA—The Federation of Canadian Municipalities is sending an urgent message to federal political parties to address housing for seniors in this fall’s election campaign as Canada approaches “a perfect storm.”
INVERNESS, N.S.—A wildly-popular fundraising game that attracted tens of thousands of people to a tiny Cape Breton town in recent weeks came to a climactic end Saturday when a $1.7-million jackpot was awarded to a retired woman and her ailing husband.
WINNIPEG—Manitoba’s conservation minister says the province is working of new zebra mussel laws that will be the toughest in the country.
Gord Mackintosh noted a huge infestation has occurred in Lake Winnipeg, along with the Red River.
Dean Thorkelsson, manager of Lake Agassi Marine, says zebra mussels have grown in numbers in the province like they’ve never seen before.
THOMPSON, Man.—The Transportation Safety Board says a plane that crashed in northern Manitoba last month, sending eight people to hospital, had the wrong fuel.
The Navajo Chieftain aircraft operated by Keystone Air had a malfunction shortly after take-off on Sept. 15 and tried to return to the airport in Thompson, the board said yesterday.
TORONTO—Thousands of Ontarians who bought used cars in May are being notified that they failed to pay the appropriate sales tax due to an “unfortunate” mistake the government is blaming on a private contractor.
The Ministry of Finance is sending letters to 6,500 people who will have to make an additional payment of between $100 and $500.
TORONTO—Hudson’s Bay said Tuesday it is laying off 265 head office employees in an effort to reduce expenses.
Spokeswoman Tiffany Bourre said the cuts will affect a variety of jobs, but mainly will at its Toronto and New York corporate offices.
OTTAWA—Panda bears and Joe Oliver—two things rarely seen thus far on the 2015 campaign trail—made unexpected appearances yesterday that left political observers scratching their heads.
U.S. President Barack Obama today pledged all possible tools—military, intelligence, and economic—to defeat the Islamic State group.
But he also acknowledged the extremist group has taken root in Syria and Iraq, is resilient, and continues to expand.
