Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s nurses union is raising the spectre of hospital units being shut because of discontent over the province’s decision to impose a labour bill on 75,000 public sector ...

CALGARY - First Nation leaders opposed to the oilsands say they are meeting with senior executives at Desjardins Group Thursday to try and convince the credit union to make its moratorium on new pipel...

Two Ontario Liberals go on trial Thursday on Election Act bribery charges stemming from a 2015 byelection in Sudbury, but the stakes are also high for Premier Kathleen Wynne herself. The Sudbury trial...

TORONTO - Ontario is looking to overhaul its school curriculum with a focus on math, an announcement that comes one week after standardized test results showed flat or falling math scores among public...

TORONTO - As the new academic year gets underway, students, teachers and parents are gearing up to deal with one of the education system’s more controversial elements: split-level classes. Some ...

OTTAWA - Former United States President Barack Obama is scheduled to speak in Toronto at the end of September. Canada 2020, an Ottawa-based think tank that is hosting the event, says Obama will speak ...

HALIFAX - Some Canadian universities are gearing up for the new academic year by training staff on how to deal with opioid overdoses and equipping them with naloxone kits. The University of King’...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada has raised its interest rate for the second time in less than two months in an effort to adjust to the unexpected force of the country’s economic momentum. Wednesday&...

MEXICO CITY - In the middle of Mexico City, there’s an outdoor market so massive you’d need a helicopter to witness its entirety: 90,000 employees, 62,000 daily truck deliveries, supplying...

BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - Six young Nova Scotia men who admitted to exchanging intimate images of at least 20 girls without their consent treated the victims as “objects for the accused’s own se...