Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - A new report is adding to the growing pressure on governments to use their multibillion-dollar buying power to help support businesses run by women - and all signs suggest Ottawa has heard th...

MONTREAL - The lead actress behind a new gritty Quebec TV series about the harsh reality of running away and being trapped by juvenile prostitution says she hopes to encourage youth to not follow her ...

QUEBEC - A Quebec politician caused a Valentine’s Day stir when he proposed to his partner during a session of the provincial legislature this morning. Eric Lefebvre popped the question to Genev...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government’s latest standoff with the province’s 9,300 unionized public school teachers appears to have more to do with a squabble over union membership than addr...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning to overhaul the way the federal government relates to Indigenous Peoples, proposing a new legislative framework designed to pave the way toward stron...

HALIFAX - An external report warned more than a decade ago that a Nova Scotia hospital was “verging” on violating the basic rights of people with disabilities by forcing them to live in a ...

A Toronto fire captain who was found at a California airport six days after vanishing from a New York state ski slope likely sustained some sort of head trauma along his puzzling journey across the co...

YARMOUTH, N.S. - Three Nova Scotia fishermen who were captured on video abusing and killing a seal pup on their boat have been handed hefty fines and a fishing prohibition. Prosecutor Alex Pink said M...

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says the government has met its goal of shortening wait times for those hoping to sponsor their spouse from abroad. Hussen says the backlog of applications n...

EDMONTON - Thousands of core fans of the Canadian Football League’s Edmonton Eskimos are being asked if they think the team should change its name. The question surrounding the name Eskimo is co...