Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - The crew of a Canadian warship helping residents of a small Caribbean island devastated by hurricane Irma is being forced to suspend their mission now that hurricane Maria is bearing down on...

Seven stories in the news for Tuesday, Sept. 19 --- FIGURES ON BORDER CROSSINGS EXPECTED TODAY New figures are expected today on the number of people who illegally crossed into Canada to seek asylum l...

NEW YORK - Donald Trump’s first speech at the United Nations trashed the leaders of Iran, Cuba, Syria and Venezuela but reserved special opprobrium for North Korea, dubbing its leader “Roc...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau Liberals’ promised national strategy to tackle the nation’s housing challenges may have as one of its pillars a right to housing for every Canadian, with federal offic...

MONTREAL - The leader of the Parti Quebecois triggered boos from the legislature Tuesday when he said after more than one decade of Liberal rule in Quebec, only 38 people from the province’s min...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s former Liberal government asked oil and gas corporations to “refine” the language of recommendations made by an advisory panel before it finalized its ...

OTTAWA - A group of international scientists is meeting in the national capital to try to convince parliamentarians there is no longer any doubt that common agricultural pesticides are proving toxic t...

OTTAWA - The number of people seeking asylum in Canada is now the highest it’s been since 2009, driven in part by a surge in asylum seekers showing up at the Canada-U.S. border. New statistics r...

VANCOUVER - A proposed ban on balloons at any beach, park or community centre has been rejected by the Vancouver Park Board. The ban was proposed as a way to stop balloons from entering the ocean and ...

VANCOUVER - Montreal is emerging as a luxury real estate “hot spot,” while Vancouver and Toronto sales should pick up this fall after somewhat sluggish times, according to a new report. So...