Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Industry is expecting the federal government to make fresh venture-capital commitments in the budget to help the country’s young, rapidly growing firms move beyond the early stages of d...

EDMONTON - The leaders of Alberta’s two main conservative parties met Monday to discuss what steps they should take toward a potential merger. Newly elected Progressive Conservative Leader Jason...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick won’t lower the voting age in the province unless it’s first approved through a referendum, the minister responsible for electoral reform said Monday. Victor Bo...

WINNIPEG - There were pushes and punches as two groups clashed in Winnipeg over a federal motion calling for Ottawa to condemn Islamophobia. At Winnipeg City Hall on Sunday, men wearing jackets bearin...

VICTORIA - British Columbia’s former children and youth representative has launched legal action against the provincial government, alleging it broke an agreement about her pension benefits. Mar...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government will chart the next segment of its mandate this week in what’s expected to be a modest budget - but the omnipresent economic unknowns in the U.S. could eventually...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has made gender equality a priority for his Liberal government, arguing it makes good economic sense. “We know that when women are included and given the s...

OTTAWA - A newly released memo from Finance Canada says departmental officials regularly examine how proposals from across the government affect women and men in different ways, but suggests they want...

ST.CATHARINES, Ont. - A 43-year-old man is wanted for first-degree murder in connection with the death of his stepson, who family friends described as a “loving little boy.” Niagara Region...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A Canadian school teacher whose teaching philosophy underscores hope and acts of kindness in an isolated corner of Quebec won a $1 million prize Sunday in what has become...