Category Archives: Canada

EDMONTON - Alberta is proposing new legislation to ensure students who join gay-straight alliances in school are not outed without their permission. Education Minister David Eggen says the new law wil...

OTTAWA - The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees arrives in Canada this weekend for what his agency had hoped would be a chance to publicly applaud Canada’s decision to take in a highe...

TORONTO - There are several advantages to an Ontario woman’s plan to sue Harvey Weinstein over alleged sexual assaults, note legal experts who say a civil court can offer better prospects for a ...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Nov. 2 --- U.S. PROCUREMENT PROPOSAL WOULD GUT SECTION OF NAFTA: A Canadian diplomat says a Trump administration proposal to limit access to American procur...

OTTAWA - A senior Canadian foreign ministry official says it is hard to see a way forward in the North American Free Trade Agreement renegotiations because of a series of “problematic” pro...

LAKE LOUISE, Alta. - A company accused of cutting down endangered trees at a popular ski resort in Banff National Park has lost its bid to avoid a trial on a charge laid under the federal Species at R...

OTTAWA - According to popular Canadian astrologer Georgia Nicols, Canada’s Governor General should be doing what she can to “keep the peace” with loved ones today and avoid the ̶...

Ontario has announced sweeping changes to its policing laws. Here are the highlights of the broad new legislation: - Police chiefs will have the ability to suspend officers without pay if they are in ...

WASHINGTON - The Canadian government produced a paper shortly after Donald Trump’s election outlining in broad strokes how the incoming U.S. president could have pursued a quick, substantive, an...

CALGARY - Two Calgary-based oilsands producers reported huge production gains in their most recent quarters after spending billions of dollars last spring to buy assets from foreign companies anxious ...