Category Archives: Canada

Severed ties between the Canadian Labour Congress and Unifor have culminated in the head of the national lobby group for the labour movement accusing Canada’s largest private sector union of rai...

OTTAWA - Business associations are warning that substantial tax changes in the U.S. could end up inflicting more damage on the Canadian economy than would the possible termination of the North America...

HALIFAX - A legal regulator says clear rules are needed for police who speak to lawyers involved with alleged frauds, after a decade-long case was recently thrown out because Mounties spoke to an accu...

OTTAWA - A reproductive rights advocate who urged the Liberals to deny summer job grants to groups pushing for restricted access to abortion said the government may have gone a step too far in rolling...

CALGARY - Canada’s retail industry is warning that raising the duty-free allowance for cross-border shipments could lead to hundreds of thousands of job losses and cut billions of dollars from t...

TORONTO - The Canadian distributor of the EpiPen says there is a shortage of one size of the emergency treatment for people at risk of life-threatening allergic reactions. Pfizer Canada says there is ...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s first year as president defied description. It was a non-stop deluge of headlines - with one eye-popping story swiftly supplanting another, the sensational often swam...

SAGUENAY, Que. - A Quebec teen thinks his school’s policy of seizing smartphones belonging to students caught using them in class goes too far. Vincent Duguay, 15, challenged his school’s ...

WASHINGTON - In the political ecosystem derided so frequently by the incoming president as a swamp, the jitters were palpable a year ago, its denizens perturbed by the prospect of dealing with, workin...

TOFINO, B.C. - Long-time residents of Vancouver Island’s west coast admit to being awestruck by the latest storm that has prompted an extreme wave hazard advisory for the region, including Pacif...