Category Archives: Canada

WINNIPEG - The chief of a northern Manitoba First Nation says a report into the development of the hydro-electric industry decades ago only touches the surface when it describes allegations of sexual ...

TORONTO - Teachers who use a now-repealed sex-education curriculum when students return to school next month will face consequences, Ontario Premier Doug Ford warned on Wednesday as he invited parents...

OTTAWA - Concerns about potential delays in the approval of life-saving medical evacuations are circling around Canada’s United Nations peacekeeping mission in Mali, which in recent days conduct...

FREDERICTON - The parties are ready, the signs are printed and the buses are fuelled up. The campaign for New Brunswick’s provincial election officially begins Thursday with the writ drop. Chief...

TORONTO - A professional urban planner considered a credible, if long-shot challenger to Toronto’s incumbent mayor in October’s municipal vote is set to hold her first campaign rally Thurs...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s coroners service says 134 people died of illicit-drug overdoses in July, a 25 per cent increase from June. The latest fatalities are the second-highest figures of a...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says she’s “very encouraged” by signals from Washington that the United States and Mexico are close to figuring out their bilatera...

OTTAWA - In an attempt to set the narrative for this week’s policy convention in Halifax, Andrew Scheer’s Conservative team laid out its policy agenda for “fair, orderly and compassi...

OTTAWA - A nascent federal agency designed to find new ways to finance construction of transit systems is making its first investment in a multibillion-dollar electric rail system in Montreal. The Can...

BANFF, Alta. - Parks Canada says a second bison bull that wandered out of Banff National Park has been captured and relocated to a paddock in southern Alberta, unlike the first that had to be destroye...