Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Personal and political divisions over ballistic missile defence were on clear display Tuesday, as a group of parliamentarians gathered on Parliament Hill to discuss the threat posed by North ...

TORONTO - A major Ontario labour reform bill is being tweaked but so far is seeing no significant changes to key parts, including a controversial phase-in of a $15 minimum wage, leaving concerned busi...

MONTREAL - A group that defends the French language is urging the Quebec government to do more to enforce Bill 101 as the 40th anniversary of the landmark language law approaches. Partenaires pour un ...

TORONTO - An immigrant doctor doing medical training in the United States can keep his Canadian citizenship even though he had spent far fewer days in Canada than normally required to become a citizen...

HALIFAX - He was first detected July 30 in the cold, dark waters off Shelburne, near Nova Scotia’s southwest tip. He turned up a week later in Mahone Bay and has hovered around there since, near...

OTTAWA - The federal government will consider what to do with admission fees for national parks beyond Canada’s 150th birthday after this year’s free parks program has proven to be excepti...

MONTREAL - It’s a far-out dream that Canada’s two newest astronauts are hoping will come true: orbiting the moon within the next decade or so. In fact, Joshua Kutryk and Jennifer Sidey are...

VICTORIA - The B.C. government ended the last fiscal year with a surplus of $2.7 billion, largely in line with unaudited financial results released two months ago by the province’s former Libera...

FORT SASKATCHEWAN, Alta. - Alberta RCMP say a street in an Edmonton-area community is being used as a driving range. Officers say golf balls have been repeatedly hit or flung into a cul-de-sac in the ...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - Finance Minister Carole James says the worst wildfire season in British Columbia’s history is expected to put a dent in the provincial budget as firefighters battle the largest ...