Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Call it the Iowa of the federal Conservative leadership race. Just as that state is the first stop on the road to the U.S. presidency, Nova Scotia was the setting on Saturday for the debut gr...

In The News is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to kickstart your day. Here is what's on the radar of our editors for the morning of Feb. 10. What we are watching in Canada ... Pr...

OTTAWA - More Canadian veterans than ever are waiting to find out whether they qualify for disability benefits, despite repeated government promises and efforts to get the situation under control. New...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to visit Canadian troops in Kuwait on Monday about a month after they were relocated there from Iraq. Canada has two ongoing operations in...

OTTAWA - Conservatives are accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of stacking Canada's courts with Liberal partisans, pointing to a recently appointed judge who has donated almost $26,000 to...

VICTORIA - From the steps of the British Columbia legislature to Vancouver's city hall to ports, bridges, railways and streets, protests are continuing to support hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suw...

OTTAWA - Conservative heavyweight John Baird has confirmed he's thinking about throwing his hat into the federal party's leadership ring. The former minister told Global's "The West Blo...

CALGARY - Alberta's environment minister says Ottawa shouldn't think it can use federal aid as a bargaining tool to determine the fate of a proposed Frontier oilsands mine. The federal cabinet ha...

EDMONTON - Premier Jason Kenney says Alberta's new Montreal trade office will be just one part of a renewed push in the coming months to strengthen ties and find common ground with Quebec. "...

WAYCOBAH, N.S. - An investigation into allegations an Indigenous hockey player faced racist taunts during a recent game in Cape Breton concluded the verbal abuse did...