Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - A report from Canada’s auditor general says Nunavut’s health system doesn’t adequately ensure the quality of its service or the safety of its workers. “The department ...

HALIFAX - The public outcry surrounding the acquittal of a Halifax cab driver accused of sexually assaulting an intoxicated woman is proof sexual-violence education is having an effect, a Nova Scotia ...

VICTORIA - A First Nations basketball tournament in British Columbia’s northwest has dropped a strict blood-relation player policy that prevented a Haitian-born man from competing with his villa...

OTTAWA - Canada is being asked to upgrade its diplomatic footprint in northern Iraq, as the Kurdish government presses for closer economic and political ties to accompany Canada’s sizable milita...

OTTAWA - Canadians who both file their taxes and check their benefits online will soon find find it easier to skip between the websites of two different federal departments. The government has linked ...

TORONTO - Teck Resources has received a growing number of inquiries from shareholders and other stakeholders about how climate change and carbon pricing will affect its operations, an official with th...

OTTAWA - Finance Minister Bill Morneau will introduce the federal government’s latest budget on March 22 - his first amid the economic uncertainty of the Donald Trump era. The budget, the Trudea...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s Liberal government will allow ride-hailing services such as Uber to operate in the province by the end of this year, while introducing initiatives that it says wil...

OTTAWA - Jessica Wesley has been a mom for all of two months, but she and her husband are already thinking that one child might be all their finances can handle. As her Toronto family confronts loomin...

OTTAWA - The federal government is reviewing the operations and design of the social security tribunal, the subject of long-standing complaints about interminable delays and red tape since it was laun...