Category Archives: Canada

ST. LEONARD, N.B. - New Brunswick Premier Brian Gallant held a second day of unofficial election campaigning Monday with a promise to create a new cabinet seat to deal with small business and red tape...

TORONTO - China’s ambassador to Canada said Monday he hopes to make progress on a free-trade agreement with Canada and others amid his country’s rising trade tensions with the United State...

Toronto city council voted Monday to mount a legal challenge against Ontario’s decision to slash the size of the city’s council. The legislation - known as Bill 5 - was passed last week an...

ESCUMINAC, N.B. - Seasonal workers in certain areas of the country will get up to five more weeks of employment insurance benefits under a $189 million pilot project announced Monday by Ottawa. Jean-Y...

OTTAWA - Canada’s police chiefs are pressing the Trudeau government to sign a new electronic data-sharing agreement with the United States to overcome hurdles in the fight against crimes ranging...

Six stories in the news for Monday, Aug. 20 --- POLICE CHIEFS WANT NEW DATA TREATY WITH U.S. Canada’s police chiefs are pressing Ottawa to sign a new electronic data-sharing agreement with the U...

MONTREAL - Two young brothers were seriously injured on Sunday when they were bitten by a dog in Montreal. Police say the boys’ family had agreed to look after the dog, which belonged to an acqu...

MAPLE RIDGE, B.C. - Several pipeline protesters were released from a British Columbia jail on Sunday, a few days before their weeklong sentences were set to end. Seven protesters in all were sentenced...

MONTREAL - Justin Trudeau will run again in the 2019 federal election. The Liberal leader formally announced his nomination at a party event Sunday in his Montreal riding of Papineau. The partisan cro...

SYDNEY, N.S. - The sole survivor of the 1992 McDonald’s massacre in Sydney River, Nova Scotia, has died. Joan “Arleen” MacNeil died Wednesday at a hospital in Halifax at the age of 4...