Category Archives: Canada

WASHINGTON - The flurry of Canadian cabinet members visiting Washington continued apace Wednesday as Finance Minister Bill Morneau dropped in on a U.S. capital awash in policy debates with big implica...

OTTAWA - The Liberal government is looking to the premiers for help in shoring up its position against legislation that would prohibit health and life insurance companies from forcing their clients to...

OTTAWA - Qaumariaq Inuqtaqau has seen housing conditions decline in his hometown of Iqaluit over three decades, leaving homes with broken doors, cracked walls and mould everywhere. He calls the situat...

MONTREAL - No one expected P.K. Subban to slide quietly into town for his first game against the Montreal Canadiens, but what a splash the flashy defenceman made on Wednesday. It stated with receiving...

TORONTO - The discovery of swastikas inside an Ontario university classroom this week has left some students feeling distraught, the school calling the symbols “hate graffiti” and police i...

TOKYO - A Canadian pastor serving a life sentence in North Korea has been allowed to meet with the Swedish ambassador in Pyongyang and telephone his family. Hyeon Soo Lim, a pastor with the Light Kore...

CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH, N.L. - A seven-year-old boy and his bowling team will be given gold medals after they were stripped of their bowling championship over the weekend for wearing the wrong pants. To...

DONKIN, N.S. - Absent for almost a generation, a way of life has returned to Cape Breton. Underground coal mining, once the backbone of the island’s economy, resumed at the Donkin Mine late Mond...

WASHINGTON - What happens next for North American trade talks? It’s not just Canadians and Mexicans who’d like to know. So would members of the United States Congress, who actually have a ...

Five stories in the news for Wednesday, March 1: --- PM TRUDEAU GETS A SHOUT-OUT IN TRUMP SPEECH Prime Minister Juston Trudeau received a surprise shout-out during Donald Trump’s first speech to...