Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Canadian intellectuals are in the thick of a global movement to protest the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump by boycotting academic conferences hosted on American soil. Hundreds...

TORONTO - An extraordinary 11th-hour government attempt to stop a judge from ruling on a bitter eight-year legal fight over the so-called ’60s Scoop is under fire from the plaintiffs and observe...

OTTAWA - The federal government will get back all of the money it has overpaid civil servants through its problem-plagued payroll system, the deputy minister in charge of overseeing the system vowed W...

HALIFAX - It’s time to stop criticizing and complaining about the troubled restoration of a Canadian icon, the deputy minister overseeing the Bluenose II revitalization said Wednesday after year...

TORONTO - A brutal battle for the throne of a baboon troop at the Toronto Zoo that erupted when the matriarch died became so vicious that staff intervened with hormone treatments to take “a litt...

OTTAWA - A coalition of Canadian Muslim organizations is calling for all levels of government to combat Islamophobia in the wake of the shootings at a Quebec mosque. Among other things, the group want...

QUEBEC - The federal response to Bombardier’s request for financial assistance is yet another sign of Ottawa giving short shrift to Quebec, Parti Quebecois Leader Jean-Francois Lisee said Wednes...

HALIFAX - African Nova Scotians continue to grapple with systemic racism in a province that has a long history of discrimination, a new report says. A preliminary report from the restorative inquiry i...

MONTREAL - The federal government all but dared any country to launch a trade challenge over its aid to Bombardier, and Brazil responded in short order Wednesday, accusing Ottawa of violating its comm...

OTTAWA - For the first time in almost three generations, Manitobans can say their province has grown faster than the national average. Census data released Wednesday shows that Manitoba’s popula...