Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - The head of the Bloc Pot, which is fielding several dozen candidates in the Quebec election, is slamming Ottawa’s plan to legalize the use of cannabis in a month’s time. Hugo St...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $55 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. However, one of the five Maxmillions prizes up for grabs will be shared by two ticket holders i...

TORONTO - Ontario’s legislature will hold a rare midnight sitting as the government works to push through a bill cutting the size of Toronto’s city council nearly in half. The Progressive ...

SURREY, B.C. - A family of four that was reported missing on Tuesday has been found. Surrey RCMP says the Anderson family has been located and is safe, but provided no further details. RCMP had issued...

WHITEHORSE - Police have arrested a 73-year-old Whitehorse man in relation to a mail bombing in Port Alice, B.C., earlier this week. Whitehorse RCMP made the arrest Thursday and also asked residents o...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick party leaders clashed over language in their second televised debate Friday night, debating whether the premier of Canada’s only officially bilingual province needs t...

OTTAWA - A retrial has been ordered in the case of a Canadian Forces member who was acquitted last year of sexually assaulting a female colleague while the two were deployed on a training exercise in ...

TORONTO - Three prominent former politicians who negotiated the inclusion of the notwithstanding clause in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms are condemning the Ontario government’s use of the r...

MONTREAL - Coalition Avenir Quebec Leader Francois Legault says it would take quite a bit of “bad faith” on the part of newcomers to fail the controversial proposed French and values tests...

OTTAWA - Canada Post and the union representing Canadian mail carriers remain miles apart in contract talks as a strike deadline looms less than two weeks away. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers po...