Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Canadian privacy could be imperilled by apparent U.S. plans to demand cellphone and social media passwords from foreign visitors, a federal watchdog says. In a letter to the House of Commons ...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s New Democrat and Green party leaders shook hands Monday in the legislature on a deal to pave the way for the formation of a new minority government, but Premier Chr...

OTTAWA - Manitoba MP Niki Ashton is expecting a baby in November, the NDP leadership hopeful announced Monday. Ashton is one of six candidates seeking the party’s top job - a leadership race sch...

HALIFAX - (NSElxn) Nova Scotia’s party leaders fanned out across the province Monday trying to sway undecided voters in the final hours before the provincial election. The NDP and Progressive Co...

TORONTO - Maxime Bernier was clutching his partner’s hand so hard his knuckles were white, his brown leather brogues nervously tapping the floor. Across the aisle, Andrew Scheer’s daughter...

WHITEHORSE - The head of a national inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women and girls says she understands why families in Whitehorse are anxious as the process begins. Many family members ...

OTTAWA - Women accessing services at abortion clinics in Ontario will be protected by safe zones around the facilities under new legislation planned by the provincial government in response to several...

TORONTO - Public consultations on Canada’s first national law for disabled people have identified high unemployment rates, inaccessible buildings and barriers in transportation as some of the ke...

CALGARY - The Conference Board of Canada says a slow recovery in the oil and gas sector will allow Alberta and Saskatchewan to emerge from recession and lead the provinces in economic growth this year...

TORONTO - An Ontario government grant of about $120,000 that is going toward a giant rubber duck for Canada 150 celebrations is ruffling some feathers. The six-storey-tall, 13,600-kilogram yellow duck...