Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - A Toronto woman has incorporated Pokemon Go into her cancer treatment plan. Sixty-year-old Lisa Freedman, a lawyer, has to walk at least 20 minutes a day to help recover from the radiation u...

EDMONTON - Alberta’s child advocate says seven out of every 10 youngsters in the province’s welfare system are aboriginal and big changes are needed to bring those numbers down. “Thi...

MONCTON, N.B. - A New Brunswick woman says she has filed a complaint after a hospital told her to call an ambulance even though she drove her ailing husband right up to the emergency room doors. Candy...

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau skipped over normal government communication channels Tuesday in a bid to speak directly to young people he wants to see serve on a national council to advise him on their prio...

EDMONTON - About a dozen environmental groups from across the country are urging the Alberta government to abandon a draft plan for the recovery of woodland caribou. The groups say a proposal to fence...

OTTAWA - Canada will open its wallet to help Iraq’s shattered economy when it co-hosts a major meeting in Washington on Wednesday to discuss the Middle East country’s current and long-term...

OTTAWA - The federal government’s new child benefit will arrive in bank accounts and mailboxes starting Wednesday, and replaces the universal child care benefit, the Canada child tax benefit and...

OTTAWA - The federal government’s new child benefit that rolls out this week is expected to lift almost 300,000 children out of poverty by 2017. That’s being measured by looking at how man...

OTTAWA - A new Statistics Canada study says there are significant correlations between job layoffs and full-time enrolment in post-secondary education. To help illustrate its findings, the report rele...

OTTAWA - Half of the country’s aboriginal families living on reserve could miss out on the federal government’s new child benefit aimed at raising hundreds of thousands of Canadians out of...