Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia is launching a trade mission to sell its culture to Asian markets, but it’s about much more than lobsters, bagpipes and donairs. Leo Glavine, the provincial cabinet ministe...

GRAND LAKE, N.B. - Dawn Burke returned to her Grand Lake, N.B., home to grab extra clothes for her kids on Friday night, after days of staying with a nearby friend. She found waves crashing through he...

OTTAWA - The seven MPs who left the Bloc Quebecois earlier this year over differences with Martine Ouellet’s leadership have the name they want for their new party: Quebec Debout. They say their...

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu says that while she supports Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s decision to apologize for Canada turning away Jewish refugees fleeing the Holocaust in 1939, t...

TORONTO - At a time when polls suggest Ontario voters are clamouring for change, Kathleen Wynne is offering them something far less dramatic: consistency. Five years after becoming the first female pr...

TORONTO - The third time may well prove to be a charm for Andrea Horwath, who both pundits and polls suggest has the most to gain in Ontario’s spring election. Horwath’s New Democrats, lon...

TORONTO - Eight years after a populist wave handed Rob Ford the reins of Canada’s largest city, his brother is testing the same brand of everyman appeal on the provincial stage. With calls to tr...

TORONTO - For the first time in a provincial election in Ontario, voters will use electronic voting machines when they head to the polls on June 7. The voters’ paper lists will also be a thing o...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau delivered a thinly veiled rebuke to the Trump administration and Israel over their opposition to the Iran nuclear deal, setting the stage for a divisive G7 summi...

OTTAWA - A commemorative coin for Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding is adorned with crystals and Canadian maple leaves. The Royal Canadian Mint has revealed a 99.99 per cent pure silver k...