Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - The CEO of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce says Canada must boost its global competitiveness and prepare for a future downturn by offering clearer foreign investment rules, matching a...

Winnipeg police say they have charged a former University of Manitoba professor with sexual assault. Officers say a female student, who was 19 at the time, was allegedly sexually assaulted several tim...

TORONTO - A Federal Court judge says he doesn’t have the power to reconsider how much the government should pay lawyers who led a successful class-action lawsuit against Canada over the so-calle...

MONTREAL - After weeks of pitching promises and slinging mud from afar, Quebec’s political leaders began preparing for their first face-to-face tilt as they reached the halfway point of the prov...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia has introduced a law that prohibits the use of conversion therapy with LGBTQ youth. The bill to ban conversion therapy - which attempts to change people’s sexual orientatio...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick taxpayers should be treated like customers, the provincial Tories say in a campaign platform that touts modest spending and takes direct aim at initiatives brought in under...

APPLETON, N.L. - The U.S. ambassador joined the small Newfoundland community of Appleton Tuesday as it marked 9/11 with a service honouring those killed and those who opened their homes to thousands o...

HALIFAX - A Prohibition-era law that has for decades required “dry” Nova Scotia communities to hold plebiscites on whether to change their liquor rules is coming to an end. Nova ScotiaR...

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau made it clear Tuesday he would not block the Ontario government’s use of the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause to forge ahead with plans to cut the size of Toro...

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg man has won a $2-million lottery prize - five months after he won $1.5 million. Melhig Melhig, a double winner with a double name, says he’s amazed and happy by his good fo...