Category Archives: Canada

WINNIPEG - Manitoba’s Progressive Conservative government will announce a carbon tax of $25 a tonne Friday - to be implemented sometime next year - and keep it at that rate, a government source ...

TORONTO - For most people, medically assisted death likely conjures up the image of an adult with a terminal illness seeking to end their suffering. But surveys released this week show pediatricians a...

Canadian actress Rachel McAdams has gone public with an experience she says she had with writer-director James Toback, who’s reportedly been accused by some 200 women of sexual harassment. McAda...

TORONTO - A Canadian who survived the Second World War nuclear bomb attack on Hiroshima will accept the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Setsuko Th...

OTTAWA - Fisheries Minister Dominic LeBlanc says there will be regulations in place before the spring to ensure no boat comes within 200 metres of southern resident killer whales in Canadian waters. L...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Oct. 26 --- POTENTIAL CYBER ATTACKS WORRY CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR: Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz says the threat of a cyberattack is perhaps the scena...

OTTAWA - Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz sat down for an interview Wednesday with The Canadian Press. Here are some selected excerpts of that conversation, in Poloz’s own words. — On...

MONTREAL - Quebecers are increasingly asking about having the province’s doctor-assisted suicide law expanded, the woman behind the legislation said Thursday. Veronique Hivon of the Parti Quebec...

Marineland has filed a lawsuit against the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, alleging the organization maliciously targeted the theme park in order to curry favour with animal ...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government’s new feminist foreign policy could help it break new ground in international affairs when it assumes the G7 presidency next year, says Germany’s ambassador...