Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Nov. 15. -- RBC HIKING MORTGAGE RATES: Royal Bank is raising its mortgage rates and making it more expensive for homebuyers who want to take more than 2...

MONTREAL - Crown officials will not lay charges against Quebec provincial police in the alleged sexual abuse of indigenous women, various media reported Tuesday. The reports quoted unnamed source...

CALGARY - A former police officer is facing 11 criminal code charges that include kidnapping and obstruction of justice. “These are serious criminal charges. Full stop,” Ray Robitaill...

VICTORIA - Health officials in Victoria are asking for public feedback in a bid to open two supervised drug consumption sites in a city where overdoses are continuing to surpass other region...

OTTAWA - The bastion of Canadian establishment journalism and a pugnacious media upstart took turns ripping into the publicly funded CBC in testimony Tuesday to the Commons Heritag...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is trying to dispel fears about its plan to tap some of the world’s wealthiest institutional investors to help fund infrastructure projects in Canada. In an inter...

VICTORIA - A former New Brunswick politician and the province’s first child advocate is British Columbia’s acting representative for children and youth and is slated to assume to post full...

OTTAWA - The issue of sexual abuse in indigenous communities, documented during an investigation by The Canadian Press, was raised in the House of Commons on Tuesday, where the federal ...

OTTAWA - An Ottawa rabbi says she was shocked to find a red swastika and anti-Semitic slur spray-painted on her front door in the dead of night. The attack, which took place very late Monday or in the...

VANCOUVER - Joseph Boyden and Yann Martel are among the prominent Canadian authors who have signed an open letter demanding an external investigation of how the University of British Co...