Category Archives: Canada

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba law that forbids provincial politicians from switching parties by crossing the legislature floor is still alive after a judge rejected a request for a fast-track ruling that the ...

NEW YORK - Here’s a look at some numbers on Quebec’s recent economic performance: Economic growth, as measured by real gross domestic product in the second quarter of the year: 2.5 per cen...

NEW YORK - Quebec’s finance minister smiled widely on a New York City stage as dozens of U.S. investors carefully followed his words - perhaps more closely than they had in recent years. The pro...

OTTAWA - Basil Borutski had nothing to say for himself Monday as the former millwright, accused of killing three women in the Ottawa Valley in 2015, refused to enter a plea at the start of his murder ...

QUEBEC - The accused in the slayings of six men at a Quebec City mosque last January will bypass his preliminary hearing and go straight to trial, the Crown announced on Monday. Prosecutors filed a di...

OTTAWA - A legal dispute about secret information is delaying the trial of a man accused of taking journalist Amanda Lindhout hostage in Somalia nine years ago. An Ontario Superior Court judge is slat...

ROME - The Vatican’s secretary of state is headlining an international conference on protecting children from online sexual abuse and exploitation, weeks after he recalled one of his diplomats w...

OTTAWA - The Liberals are finally overhauling a program that provides loans to refugees to cover the cost of their resettlement to Canada, but they’re stopping short of demands the system be scr...

OTTAWA - The national housing agency is exploring ways to make it easier for entrepreneurs and new immigrants to buy a home by cutting some of the red tape required to prove they can afford to pay the...

TORONTO - University of Toronto researchers are launching an app today designed to collect transit data that can be used by the provincial and local governments as they make transit planning and fundi...