Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Energy Minister Jonathan Wilkinson has announced an intention to ban the installation of oil furnaces in new construction as early as 2028. The federal government's planned phase-out of heati...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government has quietly relaxed its approach to people caught with small quantities of drugs. In April 2023, the province recommended that simple possession cases should only be p...

MONTREAL - Quebec's liquor Crown corporation says it's seeing a surge in sales at some stores along the boundary with Ontario amid a strike by workers of that province's liquor control board. Socit de...

TORONTO - A major highway, several thoroughfares and a key transit hub were flooded in Toronto on Tuesday afternoon after torrential rain hit the city, while power outages were reported in multiple ar...

OTTAWA - Canada has spent $9 million for a luxury condo in Manhattan to be used as the official residence for its consul general in New York. Global Affairs Canada says a previous New York City reside...

A former Crown attorney who prosecuted Alice Munro's husband says he always assumed a desire to protect the author's reputation was among the reasons why Gerald Fremlin's sexual abuse of Munro's daugh...

FREDERICTON - Jennifer Moore was helping a neighbour on flood-prone Stannus Street, in Windsor, N.S., last week when she fell face first in waist-deep brown water in her driveway. It was the third tim...

OTTAWA - Major broadcasters have won a court injunction to prevent internet pirates from illegally streaming live sports events to online viewers. A newly released Federal Court ruling says the anonym...

CALGARY - A free trade arbitration tribunal has tossed out TC Energy Corp.'s claim that it is owed US$15 billion in damages as a result of U.S. President Joe Biden's cancellation of the Keystone XL pi...

OTTAWA - Industry Minister Franois-Philippe Champagne says the issue of competition in the big tech-dominated digital wallet market should be on the Competition Bureau's radar. In a letter to the bure...