Category Archives: Canada

GATINEAU, Que. - Consumers now have until Sunday to answer an online survey about sales tactics used by Canada’s largest phone, cable and internet service providers, two more days than originall...

OTTAWA - The unknown consequences of ongoing trade tensions were “front and centre” in the Bank of Canada’s decision this week to leave its key interest rate unchanged, a top Bank of...

OTTAWA - The Canadian government has backed British claims that Vladimir Putin’s government “almost certainly” approved a poison attack against a former Russian spy and his daughter ...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s electoral map could be dramatically altered under a list of new proposals aimed at ensuring effective representation for black and Acadian voters. The five draft proposal...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s premier drew criticism Thursday for a throne speech without fresh measures to address doctor shortages - and for his comments outside the legislature that public heckling...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick Tories are promising to address literacy rates in a province where advocates say about half the population isn’t literate enough to fully participate in society. Camp...

MONTREAL - Lise Payette, a former Parti Quebecois cabinet minister who was responsible for creating the province’s automobile insurance board and who ended up playing a key role in the 1980 refe...

TORONTO - Bombardier says a suspicious package delivered to one of its Toronto facilities was sent in error. The transportation company offered no further details on what it called a “misdirecte...

HALIFAX - The trial of two British sailors accused of sexual assaulting a woman at a Halifax-area military base was shown a video Thursday of what a military police officer said was one of the accused...

HALIFAX - The fall sitting of the Nova Scotia legislature gets underway today with a speech from the throne expected to highlight efforts to grow both the economy and the province’s population. ...