Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Oct. 24 CANADA-EU TRADE DEAL STILL BLOCKED: International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland says the head of the European Union and the federal leaders of...

VICTORIA - The woman who has been watching out for British Columbia’s children and youth for the last decade used her final report to urge the province to be accountable and focus on c...

OTTAWA - The 3.5-million French-speaking Walloons of Belgium are standing in the way of the seven years of negotiations that led to the wide-ranging free trade deal between the 35 million people of Ca...

LAVAL, Que. - The lawyer for a longtime Quebec resident facing deportation to his native Italy says Ottawa has granted his client a two-year stay. Michele Torre had been given a new deportation o...

OTTAWA - Health Minister Jane Philpott has unveiled the federal government’s new healthy eating strategy, a multi-pronged plan aimed at helping Canadians eat healthier. Here’s a look at so...

OTTAWA - Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould says the Liberal government is going to stick with the selection process that led to the nomination of Newfoundland and Labrador justice Malcolm Rowe to ...

OTTAWA - The Toronto lawyer who successfully challenged the previous Conservative government over one of its Supreme Court judge nominees is setting his sights on a new target: Canada’s free tra...

WINNIPEG - Following Canada’s apology for residential schools and the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report on that chapter in the country’s history, many organiza...

WINNIPEG - As Winnipeg Jets fans make their way to their seats and players prepare to stand on home ice for the national anthem, an announcement fills the downtown arena. The message - ...

MEDICINE HAT, Alta. - A sexual minorities expert says judges need to be better educated about gender identity after two Alberta family court judges ruled that a child born a boy&nb...