Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Former prime minister Brian Mulroney’s daughter is seeking to run for the Ontario Progressive Conservatives in next year’s provincial election, adding some potential star power t...

MONTREAL - Quebec’s English-speaking community has grown more in the past five years than during any census period over the last four decades, says the executive vice-president of the Associatio...

Tim Hortons plans to expand to Spain, its fourth venture abroad in recent months, as it tries to overcome lagging sales and an internal revolt from disgruntled franchisees in Canada. Restaurant Brands...

TORONTO - About a year after Yi Jiang and her family moved to Ottawa from China, they found themselves sharing a two-bedroom apartment with her parents. After living together in Shenzhen, it seemed on...

SURREY, B.C. - Laura and Jen O’Connor got married for all the romantic, fairy-tale reasons: after seven years together, they were deeply in love and wanted to start a family. But on another leve...

OTTAWA - The share of the population that can speak both of Canada’s official languages hit an all-time high in 2016, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday in its latest batch of census numbers -...

TORONTO - With their only child grown up with a family of her own, Louise Hutchison and Dave Sharp were enjoying the freedom of being empty-nesters: travelling, getting together with friends and, of c...

OTTAWA - Highlights from Wednesday’s latest batch of data from the 2016 census, this one focused on families, households, marital status and language: - The Canadian household averaged just 2.4 ...

OTTAWA - Couples without kids are outpacing their procreating counterparts, same-sex relationships are blossoming, multiple generations are living under the same roof and more people than ever are liv...

HALIFAX - The mental health expert who looked into a spate of Cape Breton teen suicides says authorities have to look beyond bullying in their response. “I think there is this tendency to assume...