Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - The CEO of the parent company of Tim Hortons said Monday he plans to keep pushing with an international expansion of the coffee-and-doughnut chain despite softness in the quick-service resta...

TORONTO - Ontario’s highest court swiftly dismissed an appeal Monday by the man convicted of killing eight-year-old Victoria Stafford. Michael Rafferty was sentenced to life in prison in 20...

By the time Shayne Lund’s court case wrapped up this week, his lawyer had spent three years dealing with evidence relating to sex crimes against children and animals, wading through reams o...

MONTREAL - Health Minister Jane Philpott says the government intends to change the country’s Food Guide and overhaul food labelling rules as part of an effort to make Canadians he...

OTTAWA - A Conservative senator who helped craft a report on the country’s obesity crisis is cheering the federal government’s plan to overhaul the Canada Food Guide, but wants Health...

OTTAWA - The Bank of Canada and the federal government said Monday they have renewed their inflation target agreement for another five years in an effort to foster price stability and sustainable econ...

EDMONTON - Green energy groups have joined an environmental think tank in calling on the Alberta government to legislate firm targets for renewable power. The Pembina Institute and a number of green e...

OTTAWA - International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland came out swinging against her domestic political opponents Monday as she ratcheted up pressure on European lawmakers to twist the arm of the lon...

Six stories in the news for Monday, Oct. 24   LIBERALS HOPE TO SNATCH ALBERTA SEAT FROM CONSERVATIVES A federal byelection will be held today in a southern Alberta riding that hasn’t electe...

VANCOUVER - A former University of British Columbia student who filed a human rights complaint over the school’s handling of sexual assault reports says mediation ended unsuccessfully after 90 m...