Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Canada’s largest school board says it will stop booking trips to the United States indefinitely in light of the uncertainty surrounding restrictions at the border. The Toronto District...

QUEBEC - The Quebec national assembly adopted a motion Thursday expressing the province’s “great disappointment” with the federal budget. It passed by a 95-0 margin, with two abstent...

REGINA - Saskatchewan’s Justice Ministry is reviewing Husky Energy’s response to alarms before a major oil spill last summer to determine whether charges are warranted. The department is a...

HALIFAX - A New Brunswick man has been charged with second-degree murder almost 12 years after the body of a 26-year-old woman was found in a Halifax apartment. Investigators in the cold case unit of ...

Ottawa made no changes in the federal budget to the way capital gains are taxed, but Finance Minister Bill Morneau isn’t completely ruling out changes in the future. When asked about possible ch...

OTTAWA - New Democrat MP Nathan Cullen is planning a series of town-hall meetings in Liberal ridings across the country in an effort to resurrect the issue of electoral reform. Prime Minister Justin T...

HALIFAX - Opposition parties are accusing Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil of playing political games by refusing to rule out a quick election call after tabling the spring budget next month. McNeil...

TORONTO - Beleaguered Sen. Don Meredith’s new lawyer said he hoped to temper the intense emotions unleashed by an ethics report on his client’s affair with a teenager, adding the race card...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A sex doll at the centre of a trial in Newfoundland had some “breast budding” but is still “child-like,” a forensic psychiatrist testified Thursday. Dr...

NORTH PRESTON, N.S. - Members of a historic church just east of Halifax will soon work out a plan to return to the building after a fire tore through the upper reaches of what was a beloved gathering ...