Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Heritage Minister Pablo Rodriguez is hitting back at Meta, which owns Facebook, after the company did not rule out banning Canadians from viewing and sharing news on the social network. The L...

HALIFAX - One of the Mounties who oversaw the initial response to the mass shooting in Nova Scotia was off work for at least 16 months afterwards, saying he struggled with questions about his own deci...

WASHINGTON - United States prosecutors say they've offered a plea deal to the Montreal-area woman accused of mailing poison to former president Donald Trump. The deal would include the three charges F...

QUEBEC - The man accused of murdering two people with a sword on Halloween 2020 in Quebec City's historic district will testify in his own defence. Carl Girouard, 26, is charged with two counts of fir...

OTTAWA - Canada has imposed sanctions on more than 200 people who are loyal to Russian President Vladimir Putin in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. Global Affairs Canada says the new measures target 1...

TORONTO - Newly released census data shows 0.33 per cent of Canadians aged 15 or older - or about 100,815 people - identify as transgender or non-binary. The new information from Statistics Canada giv...

OTTAWA - With every year that Canada's baby boomers blow out another candle, the country's population skews older. Today, Statistics Canada will reveal just how much older we've become. The agency is ...

OTTAWA - The head of a federal infrastructure agency says a new set of investing orders from the Liberal government should make it simpler to deploy more funding in the coming months. The recent feder...

WASHINGTON - Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly says Canada and the United States will continue to exert "maximum pressure" on Russia in response to its ongoing invasion of Ukraine. Joly made the st...

VANCOUVER - Canada Post has temporarily resumed delivery to Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, more than a month after it stopped bringing mail to a two-block area where it says workers had safety concern...