Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - A new Statistics Canada study says there are significant correlations between job layoffs and full-time enrolment in post-secondary education. To help illustrate its findings, the report rele...

OTTAWA - Half of the country’s aboriginal families living on reserve could miss out on the federal government’s new child benefit aimed at raising hundreds of thousands of Canadians out of...

WINNIPEG - A woman accused of concealing the remains of six infants in a storage locker had a long-term, extra-marital affair that led to a pregnancy, a former friend testified Tuesday. Lyn Burdett to...

MONTREAL - Less than two days after Quebec’s 2012 election-night shooting, accused murderer Richard Henry Bain moved quickly to protect his legal rights and fumed as a detective quizzed him on h...

CHARLOTTETOWN - The P.E.I. government is under fire for its handling of a privacy breach in which photos taken of residents of a long term care home were shared on social media. A CBC report says one ...

TORONTO - Friday marks the start of what’s expected to be a bittersweet chapter in the history of one of Canada’s most iconic bands. Two months after the Tragically Hip revealed lead singe...

VANCOUVER - A made-in-Canada approach to treating opioid addiction is garnering positive international attention from one of the world’s most widely circulated medical publications. The Journal ...

TORONTO - Most builders of condominiums in Toronto wait until at least 70 per cent of their units are sold before beginning construction, mitigating the risk of speculation, Canada Mortgage and Housin...

OTTAWA - Delays in the resettlement of Syrian refugees from Turkey to Canada are likely to grow even longer after a failed coup attempted there last week. Securing exit permits for Syrians in Turkey h...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government’s new ambassador to Japan was lauded Tuesday by a former Conservative trade official as a good choice for helping Canadian exporters crack the world’s third...