Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - Municipalities in British Columbia want the provincial government to restrict the role of money in local politics in time for next year’s elections. The request came Thursday after a...

OTTAWA - Oxfam Canada says hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, who have been fleeing violence in Myanmar in recent weeks, are without shelter and clean water in flooded refugee camps. The inter...

MONTREAL - Canadian models and friends of Hugh Hefner remembered the Playboy mogul Thursday as an “extraordinary” man whose legacy reached far beyond the magazine he founded. Toronto filmm...

OTTAWA - A class-action suit that alleges oil companies and fuel retailers in Quebec were engaged in fixing the price of gasoline hit a pothole Thursday when Canada’s highest court blocked it fr...

OTTAWA - As he prepares to return to private life after seven years as Governor General, David Johnston is being toasted as a warm and genial man of the people who connected deeply with Canadians. Joh...

OTTAWA - Tens of thousands of low-income families could end up homeless in the coming years if the Liberal government drastically changes the way it spends billions in affordable housing benefits, war...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau tried to reassure farmers Thursday that Ottawa’s controversial tax proposals, if introduced, wouldn’t impair their ability to bequeath the family far...

BRAMPTON, Ont. - A 27-year-old woman declared brain dead by doctors at a Toronto-area hospital will remain on life support following a court ruling on Thursday. Ontario Superior Court Judge Lucille Sh...

OTTAWA - A national, universal pharmacare program that all but eliminates all out-of-pocket expenses for Canadians who need to fill their prescriptions could slash the overall price tag for drugs in t...

OTTAWA - The federal government laid out its strategy Thursday to support Canada’s creative industries. Here’s what you should know about the plan. - No Netflix tax. Heritage Minister Mela...