Category Archives: Canada

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Some schools are closed and there are travel delays in parts of Atlantic Canada as snow, freezing rain and rain moves through the region on the first official day of spring. E...

OTTAWA - Senior defence officials have ordered a curb on non-essential activities across the department, The Canadian Press has learned, as they look to free up millions of dollars for military operat...

WASHINGTON - If you want to go to your happy place, you need more than cash. A winter coat helps - and a sense of community. A new report shows Norway is the happiest country on Earth, Americans are g...

Four stories in the news for Monday, March 20: --- HOPES PLACED ON LIBERALS TO COUGH UP VENTURE CAPITAL CASH: Those connected with new and growing companies hope the Trudeau government will make addit...

WASHINGTON, Wash. - Everyone’s talking about problems hurting workers. In the last U.S. election, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton argued about reasons for a historic disruption in the labour ma...

OTTAWA - Industry is expecting the federal government to make fresh venture-capital commitments in the budget to help the country’s young, rapidly growing firms move beyond the early stages of d...

EDMONTON - The leaders of Alberta’s two main conservative parties met Monday to discuss what steps they should take toward a potential merger. Newly elected Progressive Conservative Leader Jason...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick won’t lower the voting age in the province unless it’s first approved through a referendum, the minister responsible for electoral reform said Monday. Victor Bo...

WINNIPEG - There were pushes and punches as two groups clashed in Winnipeg over a federal motion calling for Ottawa to condemn Islamophobia. At Winnipeg City Hall on Sunday, men wearing jackets bearin...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s former children and youth representative has launched legal action against the provincial government, alleging it broke an agreement about her pension benefits. Mar...