Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Sept. 26 --- INQUIRY INTO MISSING AND MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN HOLDS HEARINGS: A second set of hearings began Tuesday into murdered and missing Indigenous w...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is cheering Liberal MPs who walked out of a hearing Tuesday to prevent a Conservative counterpart with anti-abortion views from being named to head up the House ...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia and the federal government are battling in court over $50-million in potential tax revenues from video lottery terminals operated on First Nations. In an appeal filed last Novemb...

SMITHERS, B.C. - Mary Jane Hill wasn’t there to witness the birth of her grandchildren or to see them graduate from high school. She won’t be there when her daughter needs her most, when s...

OTTAWA - First he named her the country’s top scientist. Then Justin Trudeau tried to take Mona Nemer out with a robot. It was all in a day’s work for the prime minister, a self-confessed ...

OAKVILLE, Ont. - An Ontario town council will continue Wednesday to hear submissions on a plan to demolish the historic Glen Abbey golf course despite its heritage status. Glen Abbey’s owner Clu...

OTTAWA - The federal government’s approach to culture was drafted in an era when rabbit ears perched on top of TV sets, but a major speech by Heritage Minister Melanie Joly on Thursday is expect...

DAWSON CREEK, B.C. - A recent visit to two paleontology museums in northeastern British Columbia was all it took to turn a local woman into a dinosaur sleuth with a significant discovery to her credit...

TORONTO - Ontario’s plan to hike minimum wage to $15 an hour will cost the province’s economy as many as 90,000 jobs by 2020, according to a new report from TD Bank. The findings come in a...

NEW YORK - Quebec wasted little time in making Ottawa aware “right from the start” about its concerns with the federal government’s proposed - and now hotly contested - tax reforms, ...