Thousands of Quebec students start required protest internships to obtain arts degree

MONTREAL – As a requirement for many universities in Quebec, tens of thousands of students have started their annual protest internships to complete their degrees. Quebec students must spen…

Government removes ‘Trans’ from Trans-Canada Highway citing family values

OTTAWA – Canada’s transcontinental highway will get a name change after several Conservative MPs and Senators expressed discomfort with the current name. The Conservative caucus accused the…

Tax season makes man glad he saved that Wendy’s receipt from 7 months ago

SARNIA, ON – As he completes his tax return, local man David Cupchik says he is very happy that he remembered to get that receipt from the $8.99 chicken sandwich combo he ordered at the Wen…

CRTC mandates cable companies reduce prices, offer flexibility, be the internet

OTTAWA – After months of deliberation, the Canadian Radio and Television Commission released a ruling requiring large cable companies like Rogers and Bell to offer customers the kind of che…

Feds ask workers with disabilities to shred policy on human decency before laying them off

OTTAWA – The federal government has made one final request to 50 wastepaper workers with intellectual disabilities before they are laid off and the work given to more expensive private comp…

CSIS oversight committee moves into new quarters at YMCA

OTTAWA – Responsible for overseeing the newly expanded powers of the Canadian spy agency CSIS, the Security Intelligence Review Committee has just moved into a 240 square-foot office comple…

Drake’s Canada Council for the Arts grant about to run out

TORONTO – Popular Canadian rapper Drake may be heading for choppy waters when his grant from the Canada Council for the Arts runs out at the end of this month. Since he was bestowed the gra…

Tim Hortons ‘RaceTogether’ initiative leads to over 4000 fistfights on first day

CALGARY – Canadian coffee chain Tim Horton’s attempt to duplicate Starbucks’ “RaceTogether” policy, where servers engage customers in frank discussions of racial politics, has resulted in 4…

Health Minister to allow 3-parent babies as long as she is one of the parents

OTTAWA – A medical procedure that would give children the cellular material of three parents has been legalized, as long as one of the parents is Health Minister Rona Ambrose. “This bill wi…

Report: Nation’s dads still in the bathroom

CANADA – Reports are coming in from across the nation confirming that, despite taking more than enough time, Canada’s fathers have yet to exit the bathroom. “We don’t want to alarm anyone, …