Category Archives: Canada

MONCTON, N.B. - The RCMP’s Labour Code trial stemming from a New Brunswick shooting rampage has laid bare the tensions and “toxic culture” within Canada’s national police force...

TORONTO - Ontario drivers could soon get their vehicle emissions tested remotely. A $30 fee was scrapped in last year’s provincial budget for the much-maligned Drive Clean program that tests emi...

OTTAWA - The federal Finance Department says the government ran a $100-million deficit through the first four months of the current fiscal year, a significant decline from the same period last year. B...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Tom Hickey says he feels safer on the roads almost anywhere else in North America - Toronto, New York, L.A. “It’s insane,” said Hickey, president of Wedgwood...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia tabled legislation Friday that sets the stage for its promised cap and trade regime, although specific details on the regulations and the effect on consumers are yet to be known....

NAIN, N.L. - Ottawa and the Nunatsiavut Inuit government have formed a partnership to protect and manage the waters around northern Labrador. A marine management plan will be developed to protect a st...

Housing affordability in Canada hit the worst level in 27 years in the second quarter of this year, according to a Royal Bank of Canada report. RBC Economics said in a report Friday that its housing a...

A Toronto-area company’s upcoming video game called “Dirty Chinese Restaurant” is being denounced as racist, but the business says its product is meant as satire. Big-O-Tree Games sa...

OTTAWA - Canada’s eight-month march of monthly growth in the economy came to an end in July, according to Statistics Canada, a development that could head off more rate hikes this year. Gross do...

MONTREAL - Bombardier Inc. sustained another blow Friday as the World Trade Organization formally established a panel to review CSeries subsidies at the request of Brazil’s Embraer S.A., just da...