Category Archives: Canada

WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced some anger over indigenous issues and oil pipeline development during a town-hall meeting Thursday in Winnipeg. Small groups of protesters scattered thro...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Jan. 26 ___ TRANSCANADA MAKES NEW KEYSTONE XL APPLICATION: TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) has submitted a new presidential permit application to the U.S. Depar...

WASHINGTON - The first week of Donald Trump’s presidency promised Canada two bridges, one oil pipeline and a set of locks. Mexico got a wall. America’s two neighbours had vastly different ...

CALGARY - Since TransCanada Corp. (TSX:TRP) first proposed the 1,897-kilometre Keystone XL pipeline, the project has been studied, stalled, slammed and hyped - all amid political pressure from interes...

OTTAWA - The findings from the first federally organized point-in-time count of homeless people were released Thursday, revealing the depth of poverty in almost three dozen Canadian cities. The count,...

CALGARY - A pipeline that leaked 200,000 litres of oil into a frozen pond in the southeast corner of the Saskatchewan is nearly 50 years old and there’s no record of it ever being inspected by p...

CALGARY - TransCanada Corp. has officially revived the once-dead Keystone XL pipeline with a new application for a presidential permit. Thursday’s application came two days after U.S. President ...

WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says tens of billions in federal health transfer payments are there for the taking if the provinces want them. He also reiterated that Ottawa is offering an ad...

OTTAWA - A report from the Public Policy Forum, authored by veteran journalist Ed Greenspon, is urging dramatic changes to help support the Canadian news industry as it struggles with sharp declines i...

OTTAWA - A public library has told a Conservative leadership candidate he can’t use their facility to host a meet-and-greet with pro-life supporters because the event’s “controversia...