Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Sales of homes for more than $1 million soared last year, according to a Sotheby’s report Wednesday. Here’s a breakdown for four cities (previous year in brackets): Calgary: $1 m...

OTTAWA - The deaths of two 12-year-old girls from a remote First Nation in northern Ontario are further evidence of the need for a national suicide strategy to help protect children across Canada, a p...

CALGARY - The National Energy Board says it will require companies making pipeline applications to provide more detail on their emergency response plans. The federal regulator says the rule changes ar...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals were warned months ago that the design of their vaunted infrastructure program could leave the government with little ability to spend money quickly if provinces and citi...

CALGARY - After more than two years of gloom and uncertainty, the Calgary Real Estate Board is predicting that the city’s housing market will stabilize this year as steady oil prices lift the sp...

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia judge has quashed a decision by the province’s human rights commission, effectively forcing it to re-visit a discrimination claim by five social assistance recipients who...

CALGARY - A huge pool of prospective jurors was called to a Calgary courtroom Wednesday to choose a jury for the trial of a man accused of killing a little boy and his grandparents in 2014. Douglas Ga...

VANCOUVER - A former Mountie convicted of perjury in relation to the death of a Polish man at Vancouver’s airport in 2007 has lost his appeal. In a two-to-one decision, a panel of Appeal Court j...

MONTREAL - A man convicted of leaving the scene in the 1989 hit-and-run death of Canadian swimming champion Victor Davis was granted bail Wednesday on a manslaughter charge in a separate case. Glen Cr...

OTTAWA - It’s unlikely that any single person will be held accountable for the government’s failed employee pay system, a senior federal bureaucrat told a news conference Wednesday. The co...