Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared to be inching closer Wednesday to cancelling Canada’s $15-billion deal to sell light armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia. On Tuesday, Trudeau seemed...

WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump pulled some of his usual barrage of podium punches Wednesday, urging politicians of all stripes to stop attacking each other’s morals and calling on supp...

MONTREAL - A recent mishap aboard a Soyuz capsule en route to the International Space Station has done nothing to unnerve Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques about his own upcoming mission. “...

TORONTO - A lawyer hired by the family of billionaire couple Barry and Honey Sherman says he’ll be offering an update this week on a private investigation into the pair’s murders. Brian Gr...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada raised its key interest rate target Wednesday. Here’s the text of the central bank’s announcement: The Bank of Canada today increased its target for the overnig...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - The federal Liberal government is turning its face to the North with changes in a major ministry and at the Canadian Coast Guard. “It is definitely a step toward a northern st...

TORONTO - With the recognition that physician prescribing plays a significant role in Canada’s opioid crisis, a team of researchers has developed a program called STOP Narcotics to dramatically ...

OTTAWA - The federal government named a special mediator Wednesday in hopes of ending rotating walkouts at Canada Post that forced closure of the Crown corporation’s biggest sorting plants for a...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada raised its trend-setting interest rate Wednesday and sent signals that future hikes could be upon Canadians sooner than previously expected. With a big source of trade unce...

Seven stories in the news for Wednesday, Oct. 24 --- BANK OF CANADA EXPECTED TO HIKE INTEREST RATE With some trade uncertainty now out of the way, the Bank of Canada is widely expected to hike its ben...