Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The parliamentary budget officer says the federal deficit isn’t as deep for now as the government expects, largely because the Liberals haven’t been able to spend infrastructure m...

TORONTO - Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie made a surprise appearance Thursday night at Toronto’s Massey Hall with Blue Rodeo and the Sadies. In a video clip circulating on social media, Down...

QUEBEC - The whole point of praying is to clear your thoughts and stand in front of God, said Musabbir Alam on Friday at a Quebec City mosque. That’s not easy after last weekend’s shooting...

TORONTO - Real estate sales figures in January are reinforcing suggestions that Canada’s two most widely watched housing markets will take divergent paths this year, with Toronto set to continue...

WASHINGTON - Wondering what the Americans might want from Canada in a renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement? Multiple clues might be embedded in a document published by the U.S. gov...

Five stories in the news for Friday, Feb. 3 --- VICTIMS OF MOSQUE ATTACK REMEMBERED A second funeral service in as many days will be held today for those who died in the Quebec City mosque attack. The...

CRANBROOK, B.C. - Two people linked to the polygamous community of Bountiful, B.C., could have foreseen that their actions would lead to a girl having sex with the church’s prophet well before h...

LAMEQUE, N.B. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau praised the community spirit that New Brunswickers showed in dealing with last week’s ice storm as he visited some of the most hard hit communities ...

QUEBEC - A mass shooting that killed six men at a Quebec mosque is a grim reminder that hateful words seeking to exclude or demean others can have tragic consequences, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to...

WINNIPEG - Psychiatrist and palliative care expert Harvey Chochinov has decided not to become a senator. He was appointed by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last fall to represent Manitoba. Chochinov ha...