Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Canada’s temporary foreign workers program is rife with oversight problems that appear to have allowed lower-paid international workers to take jobs that out-of-work Canadians could fil...

OTTAWA - Some of the highlights from auditor general Michael Ferguson’s spring 2017 report, tabled Tuesday: - The RCMP is failing to meet the mental health needs of its members, with new mental ...

OTTAWA - The RCMP is failing to meet the mental health needs of its members due to a lack of resources, poor monitoring and meagre support from supervisors, says the federal spending watchdog. While t...

HALIFAX - Two years after an Air Canada jet crash-landed in a blizzard at Halifax’s airport, injuring 25 people, the results of a Transportation Safety Board investigation will be released Thurs...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Police are cautioning bystanders against intervening in crimes after an eastern Newfoundland man was injured tackling a teenager accused of armed robbery. The Royal Newfoundla...

TORONTO - Jagmeet Singh is stepping down as deputy leader of the Ontario NDP while he runs for the federal party’s leadership, but he’s not resigning his seat in the provincial legislature...

OTTAWA - When interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose began using the photo-sharing social media site Instagram, the pictures she posted were all in black and white. She opened the account just days ...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia New Democrats are promising to bring in $15-a-day child care beginning next year if they win the May 30 provincial election, a pledge the other parties quickly dismissed as likel...

Eight stories in the news for Tuesday, May 16 --- JAGMEET SINGH JOINS RACE FOR NDP LEADERSHIP Jagmeet Singh has launched his bid to leap from provincial politics to head the federal New Democrats. If ...

WASHINGTON - The formal process in renegotiating the 1993 North American Free Trade Agreement could begin any day. The U.S. administration says it will soon serve notice that it will enter discussions...