Category Archives: Canada

WHITEHORSE - The federal government’s carbon tax strategy is dominating Yukon’s territorial election, with the leader of the long-governing party promising to fight the levy while his riva...

TORONTO - A longtime bureaucrat who helped write animal welfare laws in Ontario has been hired by two non-profit organizations to perform a deep dive into the agency charged with enforcing those laws....

FREDERICTON - Dennis Oland held hands with his wife and children as he exited by the front door of the Fredericton courthouse Tuesday, free on bail a day after an appeal court quashed his murder convi...

BELLA BELLA, B.C. - A sunken tug and the subsequent diesel spill on British Columbia’s central coast is prompting a rethink to emergency response that could allow those closest to the disaster t...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada governor says it could take years of sifting through data before economists will know the actual impact of today’s federal spending measures aimed at boosting the wea...

SASKATOON - A man convicted of sex crimes 35 years ago is back in the race for Saskatoon’s Catholic school board. Denis Robert Hall had withdrawn from the campaign last week after reports surfac...

NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. - The afternoon Colten Boushie was killed, police say Gerald Stanley was at home with his son Sheldon when the two heard an SUV drive into his Saskatchewan farmyard. They told ...

VICTORIA - A Grade 8 student stunned a gathering of national aboriginal leaders and the federal indigenous affairs minister Monday by saying he volunteered to become his school’s indigenous lang...

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister John McCallum says the Liberal government is prepared to start bringing Yazidi refugees into the country within four months. He says the Liberals will support a Conservat...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Oct. 24 CANADA-EU TRADE DEAL STILL BLOCKED: International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland says the head of the European Union and the federal leaders of all ...