Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Prominent Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor says he’s still getting over the shock of being named the first-ever recipient of the Berggruen Prize. The Montreal philosopher and ...

TORONTO - Housing sales in the Toronto area continued to soar last month, with the average price rising 20.4 per cent from September last year to $755,755, the Toronto Real Estate Board reported ...

The family of a Toronto university student who was detained in Bangladesh expressed relief Wednesday after a court formally cleared him of all allegations related to a deadly terror attack i...

Seven stories in the news for Wednesday, Oct. 5 --- VOTING BEGINS TODAY FOR NEW PQ LEADER  Members of the Parti Quebecois begin voting today for a new leader to replace Pierre Karl Peladeau. More...

OTTAWA - China has for years tried to block Canadian diplomats from Tibet, banning some of them from visiting aid projects once funded by Canadian taxpayers, says Foreign Affairs Minister St...

WASHINGTON - Donald Trump’s running mate earned good reviews for a smooth debate performance, with one CNN poll showing six per cent more respondents who watched Tuesday’s event decla...

WINNIPEG - A woman who placed the remains of six infants inside a storage locker was not hiding or disposing of them, but rather keeping them, her lawyer argued Wednesday. Greg Brodsky said ...

MONTREAL - The lawyer for Quebec’s securities regulator questioned why the former CEO of online gaming giant Amaya never testified before a tribunal hearing to proclaim his innocence in the face...

MONTREAL - Members of the Parti Quebecois have begun voting for a new leader to replace Pierre Karl Peladeau. More than 73,200 members can vote by phone or online, until Friday at ...

OTTAWA - So-called guaranteed minimum income programs, which are meant to help people escape poverty, could inadvertently have the opposite effect - or require large tax incre...