Category Archives: Canada

CALGARY - Five premiers with similar grievances against Ottawa gathered Monday for an informal confab in Calgary, where they shared notes ahead of this week's first ministers' meeting a...

SASKATOON - Canada's 13 premiers are expected to discuss trade and climate policy among other pressing issues when they sit down for their annual conference in Saskatoon. The closed-door meeting is ta...

OTTAWA - The military's second-in-command, Lt.-Gen. Paul Wynnyk, is resigning. The move, which is effective on Aug. 9, comes only weeks after the federal government agreed to a settleme...

WINNIPEG - Sergiy Bolshakov was watching TV in his Winnipeg hotel room when a firefighter knocked on the door and told him the building was being evacuated because of an emergency. The Toronto man qui...

Bombardier Inc. is laying off 550 workers at its Thunder Bay, Ont. plant, according to a federal government source.   More coming. The Canadian Press

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Jason Kenney will host the premiers of Ontario, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and the Northwest Territories at the Calgary Stampede. A news release from the province says ...

ST. ALBERT, Alta. - An Edmonton-area community has voted to ban conversion therapy - the practice of attempting to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity through counselling or r...

OTTAWA - A Canadian pledge of 200 soldiers for peacekeeping missions is missing in action more than 18 months after it was first promised to the United Nations by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The "q...

BIG RIVER FIRST NATION, Sask. - Many of Canada's premiers are meeting with Indigenous leaders in Saskatchewan ahead of a two-day conference. Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe says it's the first time The...

LONGUEUIL, Que. - Former Parti Quebecois minister Rejean Hebert says he will seek to be a candidate for Justin Trudeau's Liberals in a Montreal-area riding in the October federal election. Hebert...