Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says the Canadian government will place Ukraine on a list of countries to which it will permit certain weapons exports. Trudeau made the comments after a meetin...

VANCOUVER - A defence lawyer says the extradition of two British Columbia residents to India to face murder charges was challenged in court because the federal justice minister’s decision to sur...

TORONTO - CWA Canada says a majority of staff in the National Post’s newsrooms in Toronto and Ottawa have signed cards to support forming a union. The media union says it has filed a certificati...

VANCOUVER - For more than 50 years, Simon Fraser University’s sports teams have played under the name The Clan, to honour the Scottish heritage of the school’s namesake. But now, amid viol...

Calgary’s mayor says the Flames’ financial proposal for a new NHL arena places a heavy tax burden on the city. Calgary Sports and Entertainment (CSEC) and the city have gone public with wh...

TORONTO - Former Prime Minister Brian Mulroney says it’s worth saving a key NAFTA dispute-settlement mechanism that he fought hard to include in the original bilateral free-trade deal, as the U....

Highlights from the news file for Friday, Sept. 22 --- PROVINCES CHALLENGE FEDS’ TAX REFORM: Provincial pressure is intensifying against the Trudeau government’s controversial tax-reform p...

MONTREAL - A Quebec court judge convicted a provincial police officer Friday of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a teenager in 2014. The ruling triggered a strongly worded condemnation from the u...

OTTAWA - The winner of the first week back from summer on Parliament Hill? A banner-dragging aircraft-for-rent. On Monday, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation hired one to welcome MPs back to Ottawa for...

CALGARY - Mayors from both ends of the proposed Energy East pipeline are calling for the National Energy Board to reverse its requirement that upstream and downstream emissions be included in its revi...