Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Canada’s politicians will soon have a crisis line they can contact should their email accounts come under cyberattack leading up to the next federal election in two years. The cyberthre...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Oct. 19 --- FINANCE MINISTER TO PUT ASSETS INTO BLIND TRUST: Finance Minister Bill Morneau says he’ll put to put his personal assets in a blind trust....

TORONTO - Police say they’ve arrested a Manitoba woman who allegedly robbed a blind woman she met on a bus trip to Toronto. Investigators say the 49-year-old alleged victim was travelling to Tor...

TORONTO - Fans of rock star, poet and Canadian troubadour Gord Downie began flooding social media with heartfelt tributes as soon as word emerged that the singer had died. And among their tweets were ...

TORONTO - Millennials will have to foot the bill for Ontario’s rising debt over the next three decades if the government doesn’t hike taxes or cut spending by $6.5 billion annually to addr...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The old adage goes something like this: a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. But Canada’s top judge blames a lack of legal aid funding for what she says ...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau says he will deliver a fall economic update Tuesday to document the recent strong growth in the Canadian economy, but did not say whether it will include a plan ...

CALGARY - Schools in Calgary are the first to get a toolkit aimed at helping educators across the country recognize child abuse. The toolkit was developed by the Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Centre ...

LAVAL, Que. - A well-known Quebec construction mogul was involved in a kickback system so simple it is unbelievable it wasn’t discovered sooner, the Crown told the opening of his fraud and corru...

TORONTO - Ontario politicians took the unusual step Thursday of using time in the legislature to unanimously condemn a law passed by Quebec that bans anyone from giving or receiving public services wi...