Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - A date for a federal byelection in Alberta has been set following the death of Conservative M-P Jim Hillyer. The vote in the Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner riding will be held on Monday, O...

NEW YORK - Justin Trudeau will use his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly this week to present his brand of economics as an antidote to the angry nationalist politics flarin...

OTTAWA - The federal NDP will turn to its network of social activists to woo progressives back to the party fold this fall, according to the party’s new national director. Nearly ...

OTTAWA - The Conservatives are planning to push the Liberals to better define their plans for a United Nations peacekeeping mission - and their reason for taking one on. “There is no peace to ke...

OTTAWA - Parliament reopens for business Monday after a 12-week summer break. Here’s a look at the priorities the three main political parties have staked out and the challenges each faces in wh...

OTTAWA - Now for the hard part. After 10 months of a prolonged honeymoon, consultations on dozens of difficult issues and soaring rhetoric that suggested anything is possible,...

SAINT HYACINTHE, Pq - Two Quebec teens have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and assault in an alleged plot against three of their peers. The suspects, ages 14 and 16, were...

OTTAWA - Canada’s chief statistician was warned three months before his surprising resignation last week that a showdown with the federal government was inevitable as the agency pushed...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - She was finishing her last college exams, the Christmas season stretching before her, when she went out for a Saturday night in downtown St. John’s with friends. What sh...

OTTAWA - Canadian diplomats wryly noted the Soviets were “never short of reasons” as to why their hockey team stumbled against the world’s best four decades ago, newly declassified d...