Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Monday, March 20 --- FBI INVESTIGATING RUSSIAN TIES TO TRUMP TEAM: A political bombshell landed Monday in Washington as law enforcement confirmed an ongoing investiga...

MONTREAL - The long-awaited constitutional challenge of Quebec’s secession law finally found its way before a judge on Monday, nearly 16 years after it was launched. The provincial law, known as...

OTTAWA - The European Union’s trade chief says Canada is a key partner against the job-killing, anti-trade sentiment coming from Donald Trump’s administration. EU Trade Commissioner Cecili...

TORONTO - Police say they are investigating after a woman alleged that a Toronto photographer and comedian publicly posted nude photos of her online without her consent. Const. Victor Kwong says the w...

BURNABY, B.C. - Employees at a grocery store in Surrey, B.C., told a corner’s inquest Monday that they watched a man repeatedly stab himself with stolen paring knives minutes before he was shot ...

OTTAWA - A U.K.-based economist known for advocating a prominent role for the state in fostering modern, high-tech growth is expected to leave her mark on Wednesday’s federal budget. Mariana Maz...

TORONTO - Coffee shops and automated bank machines would make ideal locations for installing automated external defibrillators to help people who have collapsed following a cardiac arrest, researchers...

WINNIPEG - The Manitoba government is moving to set restrictions on marijuana similar to those on alcohol. Proposed legislation would list marijuana as an intoxicant and ban people from consuming it i...

MONTREAL - The proposed Northern Pass hydroelectric project is a “win-win” deal for both Quebec and New Hampshire, the governor of the New England state said Monday. The line is an interco...

VANCOUVER - A shortage of land and a growing economy fuelled a 47-per-cent surge in the value of commercial real estate sales across British Columbia’s Lower Mainland in 2016, says the head of t...