Category Archives: Canada

An Ottawa university has raised eyebrows and ire by opting to remove the scale from its primary athletic facility. Carleton University pulled the scale out earlier this month in a bid to shift focus a...

OTTAWA - The Immigration and Refugee Board is doing its best to cope with a growing number of asylum claims in Canada, but the federal Liberals must take action as well before an unmanageable backlog ...

INNISFAIL, Alta. - Mounties need help to name their new puppies. The Name the Puppy 2017 contest is held yearly to name 13 German shepherd fur balls that will grow up to be RCMP police dogs. Children ...

Quebec’s 2017-18 budget will be tabled on March 28. Finance Minister Carlos Leitao made the announcement today and said it will be his third consecutive balanced budget. Quebec posted a $2.2-bil...

HALIFAX - Just one in three potential jobs announced by Nova Scotia’s economic development agency through its payroll rebate program actually materialized over the past four years, a figure reki...

EDMONTON - The coming Alberta budget will include funding for 10 new schools. Sources have told The Canadian Press that Thursday’s budget will also have money for nine replacement schools and se...

HALIFAX - A cab driver who was acquitted of sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman in the back of his taxi no longer has a licence to drive a cab in the Halifax area. Bassam Al-Rawi’s taxi dri...

WINNIPEG - The federal government is offering up to $375,000 for a new program to reduce deaths and injuries related to grain-handling. The money is to go toward training for producers and first respo...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government has taken the next step towards buying 18 Super Hornet fighter jets on an interim basis, a purchase it hopes to make official by year’s end. The government sent a...

OTTAWA - Expectations are running high that next week’s federal budget will provide a more detailed federal strategy - and perhaps more cash - to help post-secondary students land real-life work...