Category Archives: Canada

HAVANA - Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard wrapped up his two-day visit to Cuba on Tuesday with a surprise meeting with President Raoul Castro - a meeting that was not on the premier’s original ...

WINNIPEG - A pair of Manitoba parents are in a fight with the National Hockey League over their breast-feeding baby. Clifford Anderson and Shalyn Meady have already spent $800 on two seats for th...

CALGARY - Former prime minister Brian Mulroney has waded into the debate over screening newcomers for “anti-Canadian values,” saying he sees no need to toughen the immigration process as o...

VANCOUVER - Ministers responsible for Canada’s seniors say flexibility and co-operation are needed to help meet the challenges brought on by an aging population. The federal, provincial and terr...

CALGARY - Hundreds turned out to pay their respects to CFL legend and former Alberta lieutenant-governor Norman Kwong at a state memorial. Kwong, who was 86, died in his sleep on Sept. 3. Ra...

OTTAWA - Facts and figures on TransCanada Corp.’s proposed Energy East pipeline: What is it? The 4,500-kilometre oil pipeline is designed to carry 1.1 million barrels of oil or bitumen per ...

MONTREAL - The jury has been selected at the fraud trial of a man who made headlines during the federal sponsorship scandal. Jacques Corriveau, 83, is a former longtime federal Liberal ...

TORONTO - Almost a year ago, Terance Brouse was struggling to hold on to a month of sobriety, free for the first time in years from a life fuelled by booze and drugs, when he stumbled u...

OTTAWA - The head of the International Monetary Fund says she hopes Canada and the European Union finalize their still-unsigned free trade agreement. Christine Lagarde made the comments ...

VICTORIA - Drywall prices across Western Canada have shot through the roof after the federal government imposed  preliminary anti-dumping tariffs of up to 276 per cent on gypsum bo...