Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Canada’s national annual inflation rate was 1.9 per cent in December, Statistics Canada says. The agency also released rates for major cities, but cautioned that figures may have fluctu...

OTTAWA - Canada’s national inflation rate was 1.9 per cent in December, Statistics Canada says. Here’s what happened in the provinces and territories (previous month in brackets): - Newfou...

OTTAWA - The overall annual pace of inflation slowed to 1.9 per cent in December as gains in the price of gasoline eased up, Statistics Canada said Friday. But economists said the economic strength la...

EDMONTON - Tommy Banks, a renowned Edmonton jazz pianist and former senator, has died at the age of 81. His family issued a statement saying Banks died peacefully Thursday surrounded by family and sta...

Six stories in the news for Friday, Jan. 26 --- ONTARIO TORIES TO CHOOSE INTERIM LEADER Ontario’s Progressive Conservative caucus will meet today to choose an interim leader following Patrick Br...

VANCOUVER - Jessica Clark-Bojin remembers at one time having a reputation for her lack of cooking skills. “I couldn’t crack an egg. I was shooed out at family gatherings,” says the V...

VANCOUVER - Smoky overtones can ruin a nice bottle of wine, but researchers in British Columbia are finding that preventing grapes from capturing the flavour of wildfires can be difficult. Wine grapes...

FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government is releasing more details about next week’s provincial budget - this time for seniors. A government source tells The Canadian Press that Premier Brian ...

MONTREAL - The skies over the world’s largest aerospace market have opened to Bombardier’s C Series aircraft after it won a resounding victory Friday against Boeing Co. U.S. International ...

MONTREAL - Aymen Derbali, the father of three shot seven times and partly paralyzed in the Quebec City mosque shooting last year, says he’s not surprised at the generosity of people around the w...