Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The governments of Canada, Ontario and Quebec are partnering with some of the world’s digital heavyweights to usher in the next generation of wireless technology. A $400-million public-...

HALIFAX - Green party Leader Elizabeth May has appointed veteran journalist and broadcaster Jo-Ann Roberts as the party’s deputy leader. May made the announcement Monday at a news conference in ...

HALIFAX - She was a strong, well-spoken young woman who came from a loving home in western Nova Scotia. But it wasn’t until Maddison Fraser had moved to Alberta in her late teens that her mother...

HALIFAX - A Halifax pastor used a service against racial discrimination to urge police to never use brutality or unnecessary roughness in carrying out their duties. Rhonda Britton told officers gather...

SMITHS FALLS, Ont. - Nestled inside Canopy Growth Corp.’s sprawling marijuana facility outside Ottawa is a laboratory where technicians in white lab coats and hair nets bustle about, pipetting f...

OTTAWA - Long hours. A male-dominated workplace. Precarious employment. Alcohol. A culture of silence. The Canadian Press surveyed those working in the offices of MPs, senators and cabinet ministers i...

OTTAWA - The majority of political staffers who told The Canadian Press they had personally experienced sexual misconduct on the job chose not to report it, with many saying they worried doing so woul...

OTTAWA - With the #MeToo movement shining a spotlight on Parliament Hill’s day-to-day workplace realities, a new survey by The Canadian Press is giving voice to some of those who toil in obscuri...

Five stories in the news for Monday, March 19 --- MALI MISSION DETAILS TO BE UNVEILED Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan are expected to unveil details today...

MONTREAL - The search for a missing Montreal boy moved into the frigid waters of a river on Monday as divers took turns plunging in the hope of finding clues in the disappearance of 10-year-old Ariel ...