Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada governor says it could take years of sifting through data before economists will know the actual impact of today’s federal spending measures aimed at boosting the wea...

SASKATOON - A man convicted of sex crimes 35 years ago is back in the race for Saskatoon’s Catholic school board. Denis Robert Hall had withdrawn from the campaign last week after reports surfac...

NORTH BATTLEFORD, Sask. - The afternoon Colten Boushie was killed, police say Gerald Stanley was at home with his son Sheldon when the two heard an SUV drive into his Saskatchewan farmyard. They told ...

VICTORIA - A Grade 8 student stunned a gathering of national aboriginal leaders and the federal indigenous affairs minister Monday by saying he volunteered to become his school’s indigenous lang...

OTTAWA - Immigration Minister John McCallum says the Liberal government is prepared to start bringing Yazidi refugees into the country within four months. He says the Liberals will support a Conservat...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Oct. 24 CANADA-EU TRADE DEAL STILL BLOCKED: International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland says the head of the European Union and the federal leaders of all ...

VICTORIA - The woman who has been watching out for British Columbia’s children and youth for the last decade used her final report to urge the province to be accountable and focus on children. M...

OTTAWA - The 3.5-million French-speaking Walloons of Belgium are standing in the way of the seven years of negotiations that led to the wide-ranging free trade deal between the 35 million people of Ca...

LAVAL, Que. - The lawyer for a longtime Quebec resident facing deportation to his native Italy says Ottawa has granted his client a two-year stay. Michele Torre had been given a new deportation order ...

OTTAWA - Health Minister Jane Philpott has unveiled the federal government’s new healthy eating strategy, a multi-pronged plan aimed at helping Canadians eat healthier. Here’s a look at so...