Category Archives: Canada

NEW YORK - Premier Rachel Notley is in New York City touting Alberta’s climate change plan and trying to drum up investment in the province’s battered oilpatch. Notley said ...

OTTAWA - Auditor general Michael Ferguson has been asked to determine how a move to modernize the federal government’s payroll system turned into a fiasco in which more than 80,000 public s...

VANCOUVER - Canada’s Innovation, Science and Economic Development Minister says it’s important to explore ways that Vancouver and Seattle can work together more closely as one region. Navd...

OTTAWA - A House of Commons committee is calling for sweeping changes to the controversial temporary foreign workers program, including a faster path for citizenship for those with long-term work...

OTTAWA - The fall of 2016 is shaping up as a period of crucial decisions by the federal government on climate policy and energy infrastructure. Here are some key dates: Sept. 22 - The deadline fo...

Montreal businessman Mitch Garber called for Quebec’s francophone and anglophone communities to expand their horizons and put an end to the “two solitudes” that has di...

OTTAWA - “Because it’s 2015” became a Liberal catchphrase after the election of the new government late last year, but Monday’s return of Parliament following a three...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Sept. 19 ____ TRUDEAU SAYS CANADA WON’T REST ON SYRIAN REFUGEES: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it’s not enough to applaud Canada’s...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A retired Hydro-Quebec executive has raised eyebrows in Newfoundland with his proposal that Labrador should be given to Quebec in exchange for 1,000 megawatts of ene...

TORONTO - With polls suggesting a tight race for the White House in November, activists and partisans are hoping a largely untapped group of millions of potential voters, expat Americans living in Can...