Category Archives: Canada

VICTORIA - Here are details of the royal tour by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge for Saturday, the final day of their eight-day visit to B.C. and Yukon: - The couple will be in Victoria at the Cridg...

Highlights from the news file for Friday, Sept. 30 --- ISRAELIS, FOREIGN LEADERS PAY TRIBUTE TO PERES: Funeral services were held in Jerusalem for former Israeli president Shimon Peres on Fr...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Two lawyers based in Newfoundland and Labrador have been appointed to an inquiry looking into the death of a man who was shot by police on Easter Sunday 2015. Sandra...

OTTAWA - The federal government plans to tighten and clarify the regulations dealing with assisted reproduction. Health Canada is outlining a number of proposed changes to the rules that are part...

VANCOUVER - The Malaysian state-owned oil firm Petronas denies a report that the company was considering selling its stake in a multibillion-dollar liquefied natural gas project in British Columb...

OTTAWA - The baby-blue balloons and parading youth that floated around Parliament Hill this week for a star-studded celebration of young people has given way by week’s end to deep reflection abo...

OTTAWA - Expenses have become a political football on Parliament Hill in recent weeks. Here is a look at some recent cases where taxpayer-funded spending has been called into question: Health Minister...

TORONTO - The days of leafing through magazines in the doctor’s office are increasingly something from a bygone era. As print readership rates have fallen, so has print revenue. Rogers Media ann...

WINDSOR, Ont. - Officials say more than 1,700 households in the southwestern Ontario communities of Windsor, Tecumseh and Lakeshore have been damaged due to a rainstorm that began Wednesday night...

OTTAWA - The mayors of Canada’s largest cities are making a billion-dollar push for federal housing money just as the Liberals are set to finalize a national strategy, and the minister resp...