Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Sweeping changes to Canada’s mortgage lending rules could push more borrowers into the unregulated, shadow banking segment of the market, creating a new pocket of risk in the financial...

LAMEQUE, N.B. - Animal rescue crews will try again Wednesday to herd six stranded dolphins out of a shallow waterway in northern New Brunswick, and back into open ocean. It will be a week si...

Halifax police are investigating after a photo posted on social media appeared to show a clown standing on a sidewalk outside a local high school. Const. Dianne Woodworth said students ...

OTTAWA - Health Minister Jane Philpott is hinting that provinces won’t get a promised $3-billion infusion of health care funding in the coming federal budget unless they commit to spen...

OTTAWA - A group of senators looking at the future of the upper chamber has laid out 21 recommendations for a modernized Senate. Many of the recommendations have been talked about for months, others f...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was pressed to move beyond words to confront racial discrimination against indigenous people during an emotional cer...

VANCOUVER - Bing Thom, a Vancouver-based architect whose unique work transformed communities around the world, has died at the age of 75. A statement from his wife Bonnie said Thom...

All provinces and territories face the prospect of some form of carbon pricing by 2018. Here are five things to know: Why a carbon price? Putting a price on carbon is meant to give people and com...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia has launched a video campaign on sexual violence that features animated birds and bees discussing consent and other issues at a house party. The campaign - entitled Sexual V...

MONTREAL - What does a $37.5-million lottery windfall get you? Canada’s latest multimillionaires are going to start with a new computer and a pair of new shoes. Loto-Quebec unveiled the winners ...