Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau is suggesting that small municipalities won’t see much - if any - benefit from the federal government’s proposed new infrastructure bank. T...

VANCOUVER - A man who was wrongfully imprisoned for nearly three decades has had his compensation award cut by the British Columbia Supreme Court. The court ordered the B.C. government&...

CALGARY - Closing arguments in a high-profile sexual assault retrial that was ordered after controversial comments by a judge have been delayed until Monday. It was the second...

CALGARY - This football season has turned Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi into a riverboat gambler. Nenshi has bets going with mayors from two different cities this weekend. The University of Ca...

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Nov. 22 --- FEDS TO ‘EXPLORE’ ACQUIRING SUPER HORNET JETS: The federal Liberal government says it will “explore the acquisition&#...

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau plans to discuss LGBTQ rights in a speech later this week at the summit of la Francophonie, where his audience will include countries that still discriminate on the basis ...

OTTAWA - A Quebec senator has introduced a bill he calls the first concrete legislative measure in Canada to protect journalistic sources following a spate of cases in which reporters have come under ...

TORONTO - A year after the record-breaking sale of a prized Lawren Harris painting, which more than tripled pre-sale estimates and set a new watermark for the Group of Seven member’s w...

QUEBEC - The Quebec government isn’t rejecting calls for an independent, provincial inquiry into relations between indigenous people and police, Premier Philippe Couillard said Tuesday. Despite ...

ANTIGONISH, N.S. - The choice of Jian Ghomeshi’s lawyer as a speaker at four Canadian universities is sparking debate on one Nova Scotia campus. Marie Henein, a prominent Toronto defence la...