Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $42 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next draw on Nov. 9 will grow to approximately $50 million, and there will ...

VICTORIA - Of all the issues facing businesses, getting rid of daylight time doesn’t come up in boardroom discussions about how to improve Canada’s economy, says the president of the Busin...

OTTAWA - Coal-fired power plants in Canada will pay to keep polluting once the federal government imposes a carbon price but, like other heavy emitters in Canada, they won’t pay for every tonne ...

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson will let political critics read his Twitter feed again after several went to court claiming he violated their constitutional rights by blocking them. They argued that even if h...

OTTAWA - The arm’s-length agency that processes refugee claims says asylum seekers who cross into Canada today will have to wait almost two years before learning whether they can stay. The Immig...

MONTREAL - Quebec City’s centuries-old architecture has earned it a reputation as one of Canada’s most beautiful cities, but opponents of a plan to build the province’s tallest skysc...

OTTAWA - A rally on Parliament Hill meant to protest the transfer of a child-killer from a prison to an Indigenous healing lodge veered quickly into complaints about the national carbon tax, veterans&...

EDMONTON - The federal government is putting more money into a program first tested in eight communities to help reduce homelessness. Edmonton Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault on Friday announced $885,00...

FREDERICTON - When New Brunswick’s Liberal government was defeated Friday in a confidence vote, 36-year-old Premier Brian Gallant was set to transform from Canada’s youngest premier to Can...

OTTAWA - Liberal MP Nicola Di Iorio broke his silence about his absence from Parliament Hill on Friday, saying he is performing unspecified tasks assigned by the prime minister himself. The Montreal-a...