Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is prepared to adopt some of the Senate’s proposed amendments to its citizenship bill, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen said Friday. Bill C-6 is designed to repe...

OTTAWA - The federal immigration minister has ordered a review of the asylum process in Canada in a bid to speed up the system. Ahmed Hussen said the review will examine how claims are currently handl...

MONTREAL - Quebec’s unemployment rate hit its lowest level in decades in May, helped by full employment for the prime workforce aged 15 to 54 years. Six per cent of Quebecers were unemployed, th...

OTTAWA - Quebec may finally get access to data from the defunct federal long-gun registry. Federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale tabled a bill in the Commons on Friday that will allow the provi...

HINTON, Alta. - A coal mining company has been handed almost $4.5 million in federal and provincial penalties for a spill from its tailings pond that fouled tributaries feeding the Athabasca River in ...

HALIFAX - The Canadian Coast Guard has dispatched two ships to the mid Atlantic to assist three sailboats that were battered - and in one case demasted - by a powerful storm during an across-the-ocean...

Highlights from the news file for Friday, June 9 --- BIBEAU VOWS TO FIGHT FOR MORE FUNDING FOR FEMINIST AID POLICY: International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says she will keep lobbying i...

TORONTO - A Toronto woman has been found not criminally responsible in the stabbing of her condo doorman last year. Ellis Kirkland was charged with attempted murder, assault with a weapon and weapons ...

MONTREAL - Canada’s Immigration Department says a murder suspect who was set free after his trial exceeded the legal length limit is expected to be sent back to Sri Lanka in the next two weeks. ...

WASHINGTON - After chatting excitedly about all the ways Donald Trump was in deep trouble, how James Comey’s testimony had set tough traps for the president, how other witnesses would corroborat...