Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - Home sales plunged 38.8 per cent last month compared with October 2015, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver says. The board said 2,233 properties were sold in October of this y...

TORONTO - A former senior staffer for Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne offered a federal MP - who is now Ontario’s energy minister - an inducement to run for the provincial Liberals, knowingl...

OTTAWA - Independent senator and former journalist Andre Pratte wants the Liberal government to look seriously at beefing up protection for reporters and their sources. Pratte says if the governm...

OTTAWA - Federal Conservative leadership candidate Michael Chong is proposing a dramatic overhaul of the tax system based on new revenues from taxing carbon. Chong says his plan would cut overall fede...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia will be getting electricity for “next to nothing” when the Muskrat Falls hydroelectric project in Labrador starts producing energy, the man in charge of the mega...

QUEBEC - Voters in four Quebec ridings will head to the polls in provincial byelections in early December in what will be Jean-Francois Lisee’s first major test since becoming Parti Quebeco...

WINNIPEG - Police are investigating the theft of a file containing the records of about 1,000 patients from Manitoba’s largest hospital. The file was taken from a diagnostic imaging of...

TORONTO - A father, mother and son found guilty in the drowning deaths of three teenaged sisters and another woman who had apparently shamed the family lost their bid Wednesday to overturn their ...

ABBOTSFORD, B.C. - Grade 9 student Amsuman Nair will remember the screams for the rest of his life. The 14-year-old was in the middle of a math exam at his high school in Abbotsford, B....

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has recommended six more Canadians to be appointed to the Senate to represent regions of Quebec. Here’s a brief look at each of them:  Renee Dupuis A ...