Category Archives: Canada

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, June 8 --- PREMIERS DESCEND ON WASHINGTON: Premiers from eight provinces and territories are in Washington for meetings related to the upcoming renegotiatio...

TORONTO - Hudson’s Bay Co. (TSX:HBC) said Thursday it is cutting 2,000 jobs across North America to help it compete in an increasingly tough retail environment made more challenging with the ris...

KENORA, Ont. - A northwestern Ontario MP says a state of emergency has been declared in Eabametoong First Nation following a fire near the community’s water purification plant’s reservoir....

MONTREAL - An abandoned mine in western Quebec that was almost demolished due to its popularity has been named by a heritage group as one of Canada’s 10 most endangered places. The National Trus...

OTTAWA - The 10 Bloc Quebecois MPs emerged from crisis talks with their leader to show a united front Thursday - a day after seven of them warned her she had to regain their confidence. “Today i...

MONTREAL - Quebec’s highest court has upheld the verdict and sentence in the case of a woman who stopped to help ducks along a highway causing a crash that claimed two lives. The Quebec Court of...

TORONTO - The Bank of Montreal’s CEO is downplaying the consequences that would come from a possible correction in house prices, saying the real estate market “essentially heals itself....

An Ontario court has ruled that a provincial mental health facility ran therapeutic programs for years that amounted to torture for the patients involved. Justice Paul Perell’s ruling came in th...

EDMONTON - A group that advocates for freedom of speech is in court to challenge how the University of Alberta dealt with a student club that staged an anti-abortion display on campus. The event in Ma...

Quebec’s education minister has rejected a proposal the government offer $1,000 to each student who graduates from high school. Sebastien Proulx says the government would rather look for ways to...