Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Lisa Raitt has joined the race to replace former prime minister Stephen Harper as party leader. “I know where that Liberal path leads us, ’cause I grew up at the e...

VANCOUVER - Home sales plunged 38.8 per cent last month compared with October 2015, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says. The board said 2,233 properties were sold in October of this year, ...

TORONTO - A former senior staffer for Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne offered a federal MP - who is now Ontario’s energy minister - an inducement to run for the provincial Liberals, knowingly vio...

OTTAWA - Independent senator and former journalist Andre Pratte wants the Liberal government to look seriously at beefing up protection for reporters and their sources. Pratte says if the government s...

OTTAWA - Federal Conservative leadership candidate Michael Chong is proposing a dramatic overhaul of the tax system based on new revenues from taxing carbon. Chong says his plan would cut overall fede...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia will be getting electricity for “next to nothing” when the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project in Labrador starts producing energy, the man in charge of the megaproje...

QUEBEC - Voters in four Quebec ridings will head to the polls in provincial byelections in early December in what will be Jean-Francois Lisee’s first major test since becoming Parti Quebecois le...

WINNIPEG - Police are investigating the theft of a file containing the records of about 1,000 patients from Manitoba’s largest hospital. The file was taken from a diagnostic imaging office at Wi...

TORONTO - A father, mother and son found guilty in the drowning deaths of three teenaged sisters and another woman who had apparently shamed the family lost their bid Wednesday to overturn their first...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Grade 9 student Amsuman Nair will remember the screams for the rest of his life. The 14-year-old was in the middle of a math exam at his high school in Abbotsford, B.C., when two gi...