Category Archives: Canada

WHITEHORSE - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau poured nearly a quarter of a billion dollars into Yukon’s highway network Saturday in hopes it will lead to resource development, but some Indigenous l...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government has been eyeing the possibility of charging a carbon tax of $25 per tonne - half of what the federal government has insisted must be in place by 2022 - according to ...

TORONTO - Piers Handling will be stepping down as director and CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival at the end of next year. Handling announced Saturday that 2018 would be his final year lea...

OTTAWA - When Ann Speers retired from her federal government job more than a year ago, she noticed something wrong with her bank account; she had been overpaid on her final paycheque. Several months a...

VANCOUVER - A library in British Columbia is colouring outside the lines with its writer-in-residence program and showing people that literature can be more than words on a page. Cartoonist Miriam Lib...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $32 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. That means the jackpot for the next draw on Sept. 8 will grow to approximately $50 million, and...

CANMORE, Alta. - It wasn’t the best call Bear 164 has ever made, but this time the hefty grizzly just out of his teenage years got lucky. Traffic was whizzing along the Trans-Canada Highway east...

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau says he’s paying attention to the growing dissent over his government’s controversial plan to eliminate tax incentives that he insists only benefit wealthy small bu...

SASKATOON - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he respects the decision of Calgary MP Darshan Kang to step away from the Liberal caucus while sexual harassment allegations against him are investigated...

MONTREAL - A woman who allegedly left a baby alone in a Montreal apartment that caught fire pleaded not guilty Friday to three criminal charges. Josee Milot, 49, appeared in court by video conference ...