Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The Canada Revenue Agency is sending an unlikely message to kick off tax season: Paper-filers, we have not forgotten you. Despite a years-long push to have more people file taxes online ...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada will lay out today how many Canadians live below the country's low-income threshold as part of an updated portrait of poverty. The results will be closely watched today ...

EDMONTON - The Alberta Court of Appeal is to release its decision today in the province's challenge of the federal government's carbon tax. Lawyers for the province argued in a hearing in De...

VANCOUVER - Teck Resources Ltd. has withdrawn its application for a massive oilsands mining project just days ahead of an expected government decision, citing the political discourse over climate chan...

MONTREAL - Quebec's education minister has formally apologized to a renowned McGill University ethics professor for removing him from consultations based on false information. Jean-Francois Roberge de...

TORONTO - Ontario health officials say there's a new presumptive case of the novel coronavirus in Toronto. They say a woman arrived in Canada from China on Friday and went to a Toronto hospital w...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has struck deals with two northern Alberta First Nations over a proposed open-pit oilsands mine that's awaiting Ottawa's approval. The Mikisew Cree and Athabasca Chip...

VANCOUVER - A historic agreement to save endangered southern mountain caribou in northeast British Columbia has been recognized as reconciliation in action, coming on the same day tensions p...

Canadian author Alice Munro and dozens of other Nobel Prize winners around the world have joined the heated opposition facing a massive oilsands project in northern Alberta, decrying the proposed deve...

OTTAWA - The ghosts of Indigenous protests past have hovered over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as his government struggles to bring a peaceful end to blockades that have disrupted traffic o...