Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Monday, May 1 --- TORIES ACCUSE SAJJAN OF ‘STOLEN VALOUR’: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is holding fast amid angry calls for Harjit Sajjan’s resign...

OTTAWA - A former lieutenant-governor of Ontario has been charged with six counts of wilfully exceeding federal political donation limits, including contributing more than legally allowed to Justin Tr...

GRETNA, Man. - The Manitoba government is transforming a former seniors residence into a reception centre for asylum-seekers who walk across the border. The centre is being set up in Gretna, Man., an ...

HALIFAX - (NSElxn) Both the Liberals and Progressive Conservatives focused on infrastructure on the Nova Scotia election campaign’s first full day. Liberal Premier Stephen McNeil is pledging an ...

OTTAWA - The protectionist approach of U.S. President Donald Trump means European companies are looking to “exploit” new opportunities in Canada, the European Union’s agriculture min...

OTTAWA - Senior clerics from three of the country’s largest religious denominations are asking Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for more help for South Sudan. The letter to Trudeau, released today,...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan government says it will invoke the notwithstanding clause of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms so it can keep funding for non-Catholic students attending Catholic schools. P...

MONTREAL - Ex-Montreal mayor Gerald Tremblay took the stand on Monday as a Crown witness at the fraud trial of Frank Zampino, his former No. 2 at city hall. The three-term mayor testified at the corru...

EDMONTON - Canadian country singer Brett Kissel, decked out in an Oilers jersey and carrying a guitar, stepped onto the ice at Rogers Place on Sunday night to sing the “Star-Spangled Banner̶...

The bodies of a Canadian woman and her American boyfriend who went missing last week in Belize have been found. Francesca Matus, 52, was in Belize with her American boyfriend, 36-year-old Drew DeVours...