Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Civil servants who transfer between federal departments or receive promotions can expect to wait more than six months for their paycheques to follow them through the Phoenix pay system, feder...

Halifax filmmaker Cory Bowles’ first feature - about a black man torn about his role as a police officer - has been picked up for distribution in the U.S., where he says audiences are eager for ...

OTTAWA - A Federal Court judge has granted an extension for women who were sexually harassed while working for the RCMP to file their claims for compensation. Judge Ann Marie McDonald extended the dea...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil says he’s concerned over increasing inter-provincial tensions around the future of the Trans Mountain pipeline. Following a cabinet meeting Thursday,...

TORONTO - Maclean’s magazine is highlighting the gender pay gap by asking men to fork over 26 per cent more for its latest issue. The news magazine says it hopes the move “will stir urgent...

TORONTO - A Statistics Canada study suggests that Canadians on average pay less than $7 a gram for marijuana. The drug is most expensive in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut, which shell out $11.8...

A man convicted and then acquitted of killing two people in a shooting that sparked terror and chaos in Toronto’s landmark Eaton Centre almost six years ago will have to face a new trial after C...

MONTREAL - The project to build an electric light rail network connecting Montreal with its suburbs and international airport was officially launched Thursday, with the transit system expected to open...

DORCHESTER, N.B. - Police say a convicted murderer who walked away from the minimum security area of a New Brunswick prison is back in custody. In a statement, RCMP say 45-year-old Steven Bugden was a...

OTTAWA - “An organization that has as its stated goal to remove rights from Canadians, to remove the right that women have fought for to determine what happens to their own bodies, is not in lin...