Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - For weeks, speculation had been swirling that the Liberals wanted to get rid of the tax exemption for private health and dental plans, which the Finance Department has calculated costs the fe...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has set the date for a byelection in an Ottawa riding left vacant by the death of Mauril Belanger. The byelection will be held April 3. Belanger held the long-st...

MINNEAPOLIS - Saciido Shaie says something seemed to be weighing on her friend Mohamed Badal in the days before he vanished. Badal, a Somali man who spent months trekking four continents before landin...

HALIFAX - The harsh conditions and extreme isolation of Sable Island has forced Ottawa to abandon a wind project on the iconic crescent-shaped sandbar - more than 15 years after it launched the initia...

VANCOUVER - When developer Joo Kim Tiah announced in 2013 that his spiralling skyscraper project in Vancouver would bear Donald Trump’s name, the main controversy was whether the glitzy luxury h...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for Saturday night’s $13 million Lotto 649 jackpot. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize went to a ticket holder in the Prairies. The jackpot for the nex...

TORONTO - A national Islamic group is expressing alarm about a small anti-Muslim protest held Friday in front of a Toronto mosque. The National Council of Canadian Muslims says the demonstration, repo...

EDMONTON - Enbridge (TSX:ENB) says it believes a pipeline that leaked near Edmonton was struck by another company doing construction in the area. The pipeline company says in a news release that the i...

CALGARY - A man sentenced to spend the rest of his life behind bars for the murder of a Calgary couple and their grandson has been assaulted in jail, according to his lawyer. Kim Ross said his client ...

The mayor of Cambridge, Ont., will publicly reprimand a city councillor who admitted to making lewd comments to one of his constituents. The city’s integrity commissioner ruled earlier this mont...