Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Canada’s largest school board is phasing out the word “chief” from senior staff job titles, saying the move is being made out of respect for Indigenous peoples. The Toronto...

TOFINO, B.C. - Officials say a small earthquake has struck off the west coast of Vancouver Island. The United States Geological Survey says the 4.5-magnitude quake struck at 2:26 a.m. Wednesday. The t...

MONTREAL - Delta Air Lines says its deliveries of Bombardier CSeries aircraft may be delayed next year but that ultimately it won’t be forced to pay the 300 per cent preliminary duties recently ...

HALIFAX - A cartoon in a satirical magazine that depicts a black poet and activist with a jutting chin and sloping forehead is being modified after critics who call it racist launched campaigns to rem...

The president of the University of Calgary was in a conflict of interest over a 2011 plan for a corporate-funded research centre at the institution, an investigation by a group that represents academi...

HALIFAX - Experts are gathering Wednesday for discussions that include a little-known after-effect of the disastrous Halifax Explosion - it sparked a burst of health reforms that saved many hundreds o...

OTTAWA - Before its controversial tax proposals triggered a bitter war of words this summer, Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s department was waging a similar communications battle over another co...

MONTREAL - The head of one of the companies offering financing for taxi permits in Montreal insists there is still a market for the much-devalued commodity. The price of a permit has decreased almost ...

WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau emerged from a day of meetings in the U.S. capital Wednesday continuing to champion a continental trade deal that many around him suggest may be doomed. But ...

MONTREAL - When Philippe Couillard was aspiring to be Quebec Liberal leader, he and Kathleen Weil met with members of the province’s main English-speaking advocacy group to discuss its wish for ...