Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - A new study from Statistics Canada about the precarious position young workers find themselves in - and how little it has changed in four decades - has refocused attention on the federal gove...

OTTAWA - With potentially thousands of high-paying jobs going unfilled in Canada, Prime Minister Just Trudeau lent his voice Monday to a campaign aimed at encouraging young people to study computer sc...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - Dennis Oland will have to wait until at least next month to learn if a date will be set for a new trial in his father’s 2011 murder. Oland was convicted of second-degree murde...

A former Canadian soldier being held in Iraq is in good health and Canadian Embassy officials are working to win his release, federal cabinet minister Judy Foote confirmed Monday. Foote, the...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia students will return to their classrooms Tuesday, as the government abruptly backed off plans to impose a contract settlement on teachers. The government had sent parents sc...

OTTAWA - Days after complaining that an all-party committee didn’t recommend a specific alternative to Canada’s voting system, the Trudeau government launched Monday an online interac...

MONTREAL - A single suspect is connected to the death of a Montreal woman whose car was hijacked and the slaying of a young man in an apartment, police said Monday. Major-crimes investigators&nbs...

Eight stories in the news for Monday, Dec. 5 --- ENERGY EAST STILL NEEDED, N.B. PREMIER SAYS  New Brunswick’s premier says there’s still a strong need for the proposed Energy Eas...

OTTAWA - Publicity about near-misses between drones and passenger aircraft might give terrorists ideas about how to take down a plane, a federal intelligence report warns. The Transport Canada report ...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick’s premier says there’s still a strong need for the proposed Energy East pipeline despite the federal government’s approval of two pipeline expansions...