Category Archives: Canada

QUEBEC - Revelations that Montreal police kept tabs on a reporter’s iPhone prompted Premier Philippe Couillard to announce Tuesday he is forming a committee of experts to look into the surveilla...

MARTENSVILLE, Sask. - Verna Martens has amassed a thick file folder of notes and documents and hounded government officials in Canada and Honduras with letters and phone calls since her son was shot a...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are banking on the creation of a new, arm’s-length lending machine that could leverage billions in public money and turn it into new highways, bridges and transit p...

OTTAWA - Some highlights from Tuesday’s economic statement, delivered in the House of Commons by federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau: - The deficit for 2016-17 is expected to be $25.1 billion,...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government’s latest update on federal finances shows that slow growth is taking a toll on the books - but they say they have a cure: a long-term plan to attract billions in ...

HALIFAX - A key figure in a political contribution and municipal expense scandal has been fired by the Nova Scotia Liberal caucus amid questions about how the McNeil government is handling an issue no...

BELLA BELLA, B.C. - The Heiltsuk Nation on British Columbia’s central coast says salvage crews are ready to begin the process of raising a sunken tug for removal from Seaforth Channel. But a rel...

TORONTO - Canada Post is replacing the locks on thousands of community mailboxes after an “unacceptable” number of customers had their mailboxes frozen shut last winter. Spokesman Jon Hami...

OTTAWA - Police surveillance of a Montreal journalist’s smartphone suggests a need for clearer federal guidance to the courts, Canada’s privacy czar says. Parliament has a role to play in ...

HALIFAX - An attempt to avert a potential teachers strike in Nova Scotia hit a dead end after the government and union couldn’t agree on terms for conciliation by the Tuesday deadline. The conci...