Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Sept. 12 __ CLEMENT: IF POTENTIAL TERRORISTS CAN’T BE MONITORED, JAIL THEM: Conservative leadership candidate Tony Clement is proposing puttin...

MONTREAL - Former Montreal mayor Michael Applebaum has failed in his bid to have his fraud case dropped, meaning his trial will begin as scheduled this fall. Applebaum was arrested in June 2013 o...

CALGARY - Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan and Agrium announced Monday they are merging, a move that would create a giant in the agriculture industry. Here’s a look at both companies:   Potash ...

VANCOUVER - The Federal Court of Appeal has dismissed a challenge filed by a North Vancouver First Nation that claimed the National Energy Board’s review of the Trans Mountain oil pipeline expan...

OTTAWA - U2 frontman Bono is urging Justin Trudeau to resist ruling out a foreign-aid boost to help Canada meet a United Nations development target, even though the Liberal go...

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A British Columbia family’s difficult summer has been relieved by an unexpected lottery windfall. Sarah Ross of Lumby, B.C., won $1 million in Saturday’s Lo...

OTTAWA - The federal Conservative caucus is bringing MPs and senators to Halifax this week as the party plans autumn strategy for the Commons and gets a look at the early days of its leadership race. ...

MONTREAL - A timeline of the events at Montreal’s Dawson College on Sept. 13, 2006, when student Anastasia De Sousa was shot to death and 16 other people were injured: 12:41 p.m: ...

OTTAWA - The federal NDP caucus meets in Montreal this week to prepare for the fall sitting of Parliament. Here’s a look at the party by the numbers: - The NDP holds 44 seats, down from 95 when ...

OTTAWA - A task force studying the national mail carrier says Canada Post isn’t financially self-sustainable under its current structure. And it says transformational changes are needed to preve...