Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Nathan Cullen, one of the NDP’s best known and most effective MPs, is calling it quits. The northern British Columbia MP announced Friday that he won’t seek re-election this fall....

OTTAWA - The federal government’s promised overhaul of environmental evaluations for energy projects is poised for a major Senate surgery, but the upper chamber must race to pass the bill before...

MONTREAL - In what is being described as a major defeat for the tobacco industry, the Quebec Court of Appeal on Friday upheld a landmark judgment ordering three companies to pay billions of dollars in...

Ontario researchers say they have discovered how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, a finding they say could help combat the growing problem. Maikel Rheinstadter, a physics professor with McMas...

HALIFAX - A federal program aimed at attracting foreign workers to Atlantic Canada will be extended for another two years. The Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program was supposed to end this year, but fed...

EDMONTON - Alberta Education Minister David Eggen says schools and parents will be able to request exemptions to a ban on seclusion rooms that will take effect this fall. Eggen stresses that regardles...

MONTREAL - The police officers who fatally shot a black man during a 2017 intervention at an east-end Montreal apartment won’t face charges, Quebec’s Crown prosecutors’ office announ...

OTTAWA - The federal Justice Department gave the go-ahead Friday for an extradition case against Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, marking the formal start of the high-profile process that has put Canada...

EDMONTON - Alberta’s police oversight unit says it was unexpected for a police dog to drag a suspect out from under a truck by the head and ripping off an ear. The Alberta Serious Incident Respo...

OTTAWA - A federal housing agency hopes to see every Canadian with an affordable home by 2030 and has offered up a plan full of experiments to make it happen. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. sai...