Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - A labour dispute at Canada’s largest independently owned daily newspaper ended Thursday after striking workers voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new contract. Newsroom employees at t...

Six stories in the news for Thursday, Aug. 10 --- B.C. TO OUTLINE NEXT STEPS ON TRANS MOUNTAIN Two key NDP cabinet ministers in British Columbia are expected to outline the government’s next ste...

SARNIA, Ont. - Police in Sarnia, Ont., have issued a public safety notice after one person died and two others were taken to hospital on Wednesday evening due to suspected drug overdoses. Police say t...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal is allowing an appeal of a lower-court ruling in a dispute between the Canadian government and the Merchant Law Group. The government has argued that the firm...

VANCOUVER - Two key British Columbia cabinet ministers are expected to outline the government’s next steps Thursday on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion after campaigning against the project...

HALIFAX - Parks Canada says it has decided to continue leasing a facility in a Halifax-area business park for an archeology lab that houses artifacts from the Atlantic region. Treasury Board President...

VANCOUVER - A group opposed to abortion has lost a Charter of Rights challenge to have its ads displayed on the outside of Metro Vancouver buses after a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled they could cause...

WASHINGTON - He promised unpredictability and he’s delivering. On an issue with the highest stakes imaginable, the life-and-death matter of a nuclear showdown, Donald Trump’s team delivere...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Aug. 9 --- CANADIAN PASTOR FREED IN NORTH KOREA: An Ontario church congregation is celebrating news of the release of their pastor from a North Korean pris...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister is bristling at questions about his use of his wife’s personal email account and cellphone to conduct government business while at their vacation home...