Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Canada’s economy unexpectedly lost jobs for the second month in a row in May, but wages posted their fastest year-over-year increase in nine years, Statistics Canada said Friday. The ec...

LA MALBAIE, Que. - Donald Trump’s fellow G7 leaders greeted the president’s aggressive pre-summit bluster with a warm, reassuring breeze in an attempt to bridge their vast divide with him ...

VICTORIA - As the years stretched into decades with no arrests after his sister’s body was found in Washington state, it was becoming hard for John Van Cuylenborg of Victoria, B.C., to maintain ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - It is stout but fast, a top predator affectionately called “Canada’s shark.” But years of intense fishing left the porbeagle shark endangered, and the federa...

VANCOUVER - Police in Washington state used a controversial new investigative technique they say helped them solve the murder of Victoria-area resident Tanya Van Cuylenborg, who was killed more than 3...

OTTAWA - The federal government says the recent hiring of new staff at its pay centre in Miramichi, N.B., has helped cut the backlog of problem files created under the troubled Phoenix pay system. Pub...

Seven stories in the news for Friday, June 8 --- DOUG FORD RIDES POPULISM TO POWER IN ONTARIO VOTE Doug Ford is Ontario’s premier-elect after a populist wave carried him and the Progressive Cons...

TORONTO - A speck of green appeared on a map otherwise dominated by orange and blue Thursday night as Mike Schreiner made history by winning his Green party’s first-ever seat in the Ontario legi...

HAMILTON - For a few short weeks, Andrea Horwath appeared tantalizingly close to the Ontario premier’s office - a prize that proved elusive once again on Thursday for the veteran politician who ...

Ontario’s Liberals have lost official party status in the legislature after securing only seven seats in the provincial election. Premier Kathleen Wynne stepped down as party leader after the Pr...