Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives are refusing to let former cabinet minister Steven Fletcher run under the Tory banner in the next election. Fletcher wants to win back his old Winnipeg riding of Cha...

CALGARY - Canada’s oilpatch is eagerly anticipating higher prices and profits after Minnesota regulators approved Calgary-based Enbridge Inc.’s $9-billion project to upgrade its deteriorat...

OTTAWA - Expectations the Bank of Canada will raise its key interest rate target next month were bolstered Friday after stronger-than-expected economic growth in April and a report suggesting widespre...

MONTREAL - Quebec’s government-run cannabis monopoly has launched a hiring drive with jobs starting at $14 per hour, but it cannot yet confirm Montreal will be among the cities getting the first...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - On a mid-November afternoon in 2003, students from Beatrix Potter School in south London were gathering chestnuts for a game of British conkers in a cemetery near their school...

OTTAWA - The problem-plagued Phoenix payroll system has already cost the federal government more than $1 billion and could require an additional $500 million a year until it is fixed, based on the gov...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has reduced the sentence of a man who drove his car into a restaurant patio, killing a two-year-old boy, and who months later was beaten and mutilated by an assail...

TORONTO - Some of the children who witnessed a brazen shooting at a Toronto-area playground that sent two young sisters to hospital have been left traumatized and suffering from nightmares, police sai...

OTTAWA - Any changes to Canada’s laws on pollution and toxic chemicals will likely not be made until after the next federal election. Environment Minister Catherine McKenna responded Friday to 8...

OTTAWA - “Trudeau and other politicians must realize the real-life consequences of their words when it comes to immigration. It is not compassionate nor prudent to give these individuals false h...