Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Soon-to-be-parents will be able to access extra weeks of leave three months earlier than expected. This year’s federal budget announced additional weeks of “use-it-or-lose-it̶...

MONTREAL - Criticism of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau by the wife of Coalition Avenir Quebec Leader Francois Legault raised questions Wednesday about how a possible Coalition government would get alon...

HALIFAX - A young woman described feeling scared and uncomfortable in a room scattered with British navy hockey players in the barracks of a Halifax-area military base, as a naked man lay face down on...

HALIFAX - A female reporter says she’s satisfied by a restorative justice process that saw a man apologize for yelling a vulgar phrase at her. CTV Atlantic’s Heather Butts was broadcasting...

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. - Justin Trudeau’s United Nations mission ended in a human-rights flourish Wednesday as the prime minister formally added his name to a multilateral calling-out of Venezuela...

FREDERICTON - The high-stakes political manoeuvring continues in New Brunswick, with Liberal Premier Brian Gallant seeking a formal alliance with the Greens - and another potential king-maker saying h...

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau joined a chorus of tributes to the late Nelson Mandela on Monday as he urged world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly to follow the exa...

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. - U.S. President Donald Trump let Canada know how he really feels Wednesday - sharpening his tariff threat, calling out Chrystia Freeland and claiming he denied Justin Trudeau a b...

HALIFAX - A mugger got the worst of it in downtown Dartmouth when a woman fought back, hitting and kneeing him and forcing him to flee empty-handed. Police say the man was hiding in the bushes as the ...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s freedom of information law is becoming “an exercise in frustration,” the privacy commissioner said after the government partially rejected her recommendations...