Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Former Ontario cabinet minister Madeleine Meilleur has formally been nominated as the country’s official languages commissioner. Both the House of Commons and the Senate will have to ap...

OTTAWA - Interim Conservative leader Rona Ambrose is expected to resign her seat in the House of Commons this summer, sources confirmed Monday. The longtime Alberta MP has been serving as the temporar...

OTTAWA - Governments from across the country will meet next month to debate a key question about Canada’s eventual recreational-marijuana market - how much should users pay for their pot? Federa...

HALIFAX - An attempted break-in at a Halifax apartment has resulted in an unexpected apology - and a six-pack of “apology beer.” Caitlynne Hines said a drunk man attempted to enter her nor...

WASHINGTON - Never mind his reported blabbing about secret intelligence to a foreign adversary, low approval numbers, lack of signature legislation, hints of another major staff shakeup and multiple i...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, May 15 --- INDEFINITE IMMIGRATION DETENTION UNDER FIRE: Canada’s immigration regime allows for indefinite and arbitrary detention and is therefore uncon...

REGINA - A sentencing hearing for a man who stabbed his former girlfriend to death when they were both 16 is hearing about what his life has been like in custody. Hannah Leflar was stabbed with a hunt...

OTTAWA - Canada’s big TV ownership groups will have to jump over new hurdles if they want to shutter any of their local TV stations, according to licence renewals granted Monday by the country&#...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau cabinet will have a say in approving infrastructure projects evaluated by a new agency designed to merge billions in public and private cash - even though it’s supposed to o...

TORONTO - A new Australian commercial that features disgraced Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson making light of doping has drawn criticism from the country’s sport minister and prompted its anti-dop...