Category Archives: Canada

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Chris Brookes lives in the heart of the Battery in St. John’s, where bright fishing sheds, winding roads and hidden footpaths make it one of Newfoundland’s most be...

OTTAWA - Traffickers are exploiting Canadian money service businesses to buy deadly fentanyl from overseas and then launder the proceeds through banks and credit unions, warns the national financial i...

OTTAWA - The Liberals should toughen up proposed legislation aimed at boosting diversity on corporate boards at publicly traded companies if they want it to be effective, says a group of senators push...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s Liberals will elect a new leader Saturday with an assignment to ignite and guide the party from an unfamiliar position in Opposition after 16 years in power. An est...

Eight stories in the news for Wednesday, Jan. 31 --- TRUMP: WE WILL ‘FIX’ TRADE DEALS U.S. President Donald Trump refrained from his oft-stated threat to scrap the NAFTA accord in his firs...

CALGARY - A growing number of Canadian drilling rigs are being moved south of the border to take advantage of brighter prospects in the United States - and observers say it’s unlikely they will ...

OTTAWA - A Liberal program to give extra employment insurance benefits to workers in regions hit hard by a drop in natural resource prices will end up costing almost $2 billion - more than double orig...

VANCOUVER - Illicit drug overdoses claimed 1,422 lives in British Columbia last year, setting a new threshold for the crisis that has been fuelled by the powerful opioid fentanyl. The BC Coroners Serv...

VANCOUVER - A former government communications director received a nine-month conditional sentence Wednesday for using his public job to attract ethnic votes for British Columbia’s Liberal party...

WASHINGTON - Facing scores of his fellow Republicans publicly pleading with him not to cancel NAFTA, U.S. President Donald Trump refrained from his oft-stated threat to scrap the continental pact whil...