Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - A Texas-based investment firm is offering to buy DH Corp. in a friendly cash deal worth more than C$2.7 billion, with plans to combine it with a U.K. company that has a complementary financi...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A Newfoundland woman says she’s lucky to be alive after a canoe came through the side of her house during the weekend windstorm that battered much of the province and le...

Eight stories in the news for Monday, March 13: --- CRA’S ONLINE TAX FILING SERVICES RESTORED Canadians can once again file their tax returns online. The Canada Revenue Agency took the service d...

HALIFAX - A Syrian refugee says his family’s thriving chocolate business should serve as an example of the value of Canadian “openness” in a world that has increasingly closed off it...

HALIFAX - Erica Penton’s goal is to never buy clothes again - not even her bras. The self-taught seamstress is on a quest to fill her closet entirely with clothes she made herself. Penton starte...

TORONTO - The first official day of spring may be around the corner, but southern Ontario is getting a blast of winter that could bring up to 30 centimetres of snow to some areas. Rob Kuhn, a severe w...

TORONTO - Montreal director Xavier Dolan’s “It’s Only the End of the World” and Space’s human cloning series “Orphan Black” emerged Sunday as this year’...

MONTREAL - Former Parti Quebecois leadership candidate Martine Ouellet has officially entered the race to lead the Bloc Quebecois. She turned in the necessary papers in Montreal on Sunday. Ouellet, 47...

OTTAWA - Four candidates for the leadership of the federal NDP sought Sunday to set the stage for their respective campaigns during a civil debate that offered as much opportunity for policy and polit...

OTTAWA - While the Liberal government faces pressure to spend more on the military, National Defence has struggled to use the billions of dollars it already receives each year more efficiently. The de...