Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The deadline to enter the Conservative leadership race is still months away, but Peter MacKay said he knows he will have to make up his mind quickly. “Obviously a decision has to be tak...

HALIFAX - A palatial cruise ship described by passengers as a mini, moving city cast an impressive figure on the Halifax waterfront Thursday, breaking port records as thousands of tourists flooded int...

OTTAWA - Canadian families will see their payments slowly erode over time under the Liberal government’s new child benefit program, says Parliament’s budget watchdog. In a report released ...

BOSTON - An Ontario man has pleaded guilty to charges he imported marijuana and MDMA, also known as ecstasy, from Canada into the United States. U.S. Massachusetts Attorney Carmen Ortiz says Gurshuran...

Five stories in the news today from The Canadian Press --- WORK TO BEGIN ON INQUIRY INTO MISSING, MURDERED INDIGENOUS WOMEN Marion Buller, the judge who will lead a national inquiry into missing and m...

HOLTVILLE, Calif. - In this election year, in this place, in the rare event someone mentions Canada it’s liable to be as a joke. John Hernandez offers an example of the genre. He greets a visito...

VANCOUVER - A self-styled champion of privatized health care is bringing his fight to British Columbia Supreme Court on Tuesday for the start of a months-long trial he says is about patients’ ac...

For 80 years, Christmas in many remote communities of the western Arctic really should have been in the summer when the annual landing of the Northern Transportation Co.’s barge brought in suppl...

EDMONTON - A customer on a WestJet flight from Toronto to Edmonton says there were some tense moments as he and others helped the crew subdue an unruly passenger. Steven Kelley says he was sitting fou...

SHANGHAI - Justin Trudeau set his sights squarely on China’s human rights record Thursday, painting Canada as a straight-talking champion of personal freedoms as he lectured an elite business cr...