Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The federal government’s push to swiftly conclude an agreement to boost the Canada Pension Plan hit a snag Friday when British Columbia declined to put its pivotal signature on the deal...

Highlights from the news file for Friday, July 15 ATTACK IN NICE LINKED TO RADICAL ISLAM, FRENCH PRESIDENT SAYS: French President Francois Hollande says Mohamed Bouhlel is a terrorist linked to radica...

EDMONTON - An Edmonton student missing after a deadly truck attack in France that killed at least 84 people is a Ukrainian citizen. MacEwan University says Mykhaylo (Misha) Bazelevskyy has permanent r...

VANCOUVER - If it turns out Benn Millman is the last Canadian on the American quiz show “Jeopardy” for the foreseeable future, the B.C. man will look back at his appearance with pride, des...

OTTAWA - Investigators are still trying to determine why a man drove into crowds celebrating Bastille Day in Nice, France, killing scores of people. But authorities have called it an undeniable act of...

OTTAWA - The latest in the saga of Sen. Mike Duffy and his Senate expenses appears ready to end with the upper chamber poised to claw back almost $17,000 in disputed expense claims that Duffy says wer...

OTTAWA - Federal cabinet ministers are set to fan out into their ridings next week as part of a push by the Liberal government to sell its new child benefit just before payments hit bank accounts and ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A “massive” federal cut to the northern shrimp quota will drain big money from outport communities along with badly needed jobs, says the head of a Newfoundland an...

OTTAWA - As candidates from Ontario and Quebec have lined up to run for leadership of the federal Conservatives, many have wondered whether anyone from the party’s Western heartland was going to...

A Toronto-area police force has reminded its officers of a directive regarding the proper search and handling of religious items after a court dismissed a drunk driving charge against a Sikh man whose...