Category Archives: Canada

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s promised plan to fight poverty is taking longer to introduce than originally forecast, says the minister in charge of poverty reduction. Shane Simpson announced pla...

MONTREAL - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is rejecting suggestions his government should have moved to tax foreign web giants in his recent budget, saying he doesn’t want to hurt Canadian taxpaye...

Toronto’s Sick Kids Hospital is advising former heart surgery patients about a single case of a bacterial infection likely linked to a device used during cardiovascular surgery between December ...

EDMONTON - Beatrix Massee is a Cree woman from Alberta but she speaks with a slight Tennessee twang - a legacy of the foster homes she grew up in after being taken from her mother by government author...

TORONTO - A woman suffered burns to her hands after her cellphone caught fire on an Air Canada flight while it sat on the tarmac in Toronto, the airline said Thursday. The incident happened around 7 a...

TORONTO - Finance Minister Bill Morneau says the government is considering legislation aimed at tax evaders that would give foreign authorities some access to Canadians’ confidential information...

MONTREAL - A Quebec woman who pleaded guilty to infanticide must take a pregnancy test every six months, a judge ordered Thursday. The 43-year-old woman pleaded guilty in November after her newborn ba...

VANCOUVER - A British Columbia bride has been ordered to pay more than $100,000 to a wedding photographer for unleashing an online torrent of defamatory comments that eventually destroyed the business...

OTTAWA - Canada’s “flying Taj Mahal” is getting long in the tooth and may be in line for replacement. The 31-year-old plane, used to transport the prime minister and the Governor Gen...

OTTAWA - Liberal MPs have thwarted a bid by Conservatives to force Justin Trudeau’s national security adviser to explain his assertion that rogue elements in the Indian government sabotaged the ...