Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - As the new academic year gets underway, students, teachers and parents are gearing up to deal with one of the education system’s more controversial elements: split-level classes. Some ...

OTTAWA - Former United States President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak in Toronto at the end of September. Canada 2020, an Ottawa-based think tank that is hosting the event, says Obama will speak ...

HALIFAX - Some Canadian universities are gearing up for the new academic year by training staff on how to deal with opioid overdoses and equipping them with naloxone kits. The University of King’...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada has raised its interest rate for the second time in less than two months in an effort to adjust to the unexpected force of the country’s economic momentum. Wednesday&...

MEXICO CITY - In the middle of Mexico City, there’s an outdoor market so massive you’d need a helicopter to witness its entirety: 90,000 employees, 62,000 daily truck deliveries, supplying...

BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - Six young Nova Scotia men who admitted to exchanging intimate images of at least 20 girls without their consent treated the victims as “objects for the accused’s own se...

Six stories in the news for Wednesday, Sept. 6 --- LATEST NAFTA TALKS WRAP WITH WORD OF PROGRESS The latest round of NAFTA negotiations have wrapped up in Mexico City with the three countries declarin...

OTTAWA - A selfie with a camel. Snapshots of cherub-cheeked children looking on in awe at some summertime marvel. Photo captions paying tribute to the support of his spouse. Prime Minister Justin Trud...

MONTREAL - Air Transat has launched an airlift to get all its travellers out of the Dominican Republic ahead of the arrival of hurricane Irma. The Montreal-based airline said late Tuesday it was sendi...

TORONTO - A new survey by the Canadian Payroll Association suggests nearly half of workers are living paycheque to paycheque due to soaring spending and debt levels. The poll found that 47 per cent of...