Category Archives: Canada

BRANDON, Man. - Anyone who booked a WestJet (TSX:WJA) flight on the Brandon-to-Toronto route will have to make other plans. The City of Brandon says the airline has decided to cancel the route due to ...

UNITED NATIONS, United States - At least 13 countries have made inquiries about Canada’s private refugee-sponsoring system in the hope of potentially emulating it, the federal immigration minist...

NEW YORK - Premier Rachel Notley is in New York City touting Alberta’s climate change plan and trying to drum up investment in the province’s battered oilpatch. Notley said she told a dele...

OTTAWA - Auditor general Michael Ferguson has been asked to determine how a move to modernize the federal government’s payroll system turned into a fiasco in which more than 80,000 public servan...

VANCOUVER - Canada’s Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister says it’s important to explore ways that Vancouver and Seattle can work together more closely as one region. Navd...

OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee is calling for sweeping changes to the controversial temporary foreign workers program, including a faster path for citizenship for those with long-term work perm...

OTTAWA - The fall of 2016 is shaping up as a period of crucial decisions by the federal government on climate policy and energy infrastructure. Here are some key dates: Sept. 22 - The deadline for the...

Montreal businessman Mitch Garber called for Quebec’s francophone and anglophone communities to expand their horizons and put an end to the “two solitudes” that has divided them for ...

OTTAWA - “Because it’s 2015” became a Liberal catchphrase after the election of the new government late last year, but Monday’s return of Parliament following a three-month sum...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Sept. 19 ____ TRUDEAU SAYS CANADA WON’T REST ON SYRIAN REFUGEES: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it’s not enough to applaud Canada’s acce...