Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Home sales across the country dropped sharply last month, driven by a plunge in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) after the Ontario government imposed a tax on foreign buyers aimed at cooling th...

TORONTO - Home Capital Group, the lender that appeared at risk of collapse earlier this year, looks to have put some of its troubles behind it, easing fears it could trigger a real estate slump and br...

CALGARY - A Calgary man accused of filming women without their knowledge and posting their images to a Twitter account called “Canada Creep” has been granted bail. Jeffrey Robert Williamso...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government will press ahead with plans for a weekly prime minister’s question period, but is giving up trying to codify it in the formal House of Commons rules. Instead, Tru...

VANCOUVER - A former RCMP employee who alleges she was sexually assaulted by a now-retired inspector in a locked washroom at their Vancouver workplace says she’s been diagnosed with post-traumat...

MONTREAL - A living piece of Montreal history was relegated to the past on Thursday as the oldest urban stable in the city - some say in the country - was finally torn down. The stable at the Griffint...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is planning to spend billions more on the navy’s four wayward submarines to keep them operating into the 2030s. The plan to extend the lives of the troubled vesse...

OTTAWA - The federal government is trying to make it easier to provide interim protection to marine areas, part of a campaign promise to more than double the amount of protected marine areas by the en...

OTTAWA - One of the navy’s four submarines was hit Thursday by another naval vessel while docked at CFB Esquimalt in British Columbia. A naval spokesman says HMCS Chicoutimi was docked in the ha...

OTTAWA - A Calgary-based energy company has hired the former chief of staff to Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr. Janet Annesley, who left Parliament Hill early last month, is now the senior vice-pr...