Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The number of apparent opioid deaths in Canada in the first nine months of last year almost matched the figure for all of 2016. The Public Health Agency of Canada released the grim figures on...

OTTAWA - Congolese Archbishop Marcel Utembi couldn’t help but notice where Canada just decided to send its small contingent of peacekeepers. The decision to deploy 250 personnel and six helicopt...

OTTAWA - Pope Francis will not apologize to residential school survivors and their families for the role the Roman Catholic Church played in operating the schools or the abuses suffered by their stude...

OTTAWA - The Senate transport committee has introduced its own amendments to a government bill aimed at providing more protections for airline passengers. The senators amended Bill C-49 to specify tha...

QUEBEC - Finance Minister Carlos Leitao tabled Quebec’s 2018-19 budget on Tuesday. Here are some highlights: - Projected surplus of $904 million on total revenue of $109.6 billion, including $23...

QUEBEC - The final Quebec budget before the provincial election sets aside big money for health and education as well as more help for families - areas expected to become campaign battlegrounds in the...

WASHINGTON - Mexican workers’ wages are at the heart of a major proposal from the United States aimed at breaking through an impasse on automobiles and securing a new North American Free Trade A...

TORONTO - Ontario’s Liberal government is poised to present its final budget before the June election on Wednesday, capping off days of policy announcements that have seen the party pledge billi...

Ontario’s Liberal government, which is facing a spring election, has promised to offer free child care for preschool-age kids starting in 2020. Here’s a glance at what other provinces offe...

CALGARY - A Calgary police officer was in hospital Tuesday with his family by his side after being shot by a suspect in a residential neighbourhood in the city’s northeast. Police Chief Roger Ch...