Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Some facts from anti-money laundering agency Fintrac’s annual report for 2015-16 tabled Thursday: Financial transaction reports received: 23,727,393. Disclosures of actionable intellige...

OTTAWA - The publisher of a small southern Manitoba family of weekly newspapers made an appeal for back-to-basics local reporting Thursday to a group of MPs examining Canada’s beleaguered news i...

VANCOUVER - Margaret Atwood says the University of British Columbia’s investigation of fellow author Steven Galloway was flawed and failed both sides, comparing it to the Salem witchcraft trials...

CALGARY - Husky Energy says shifting ground is to blame for a pipeline burst in July that leaked crude oil into the North Saskatchewan River and jeopardized the drinking water of thousands downstream....

VAL D’OR, Que. - The Quebec government must launch a public inquiry into allegations of police assault against aboriginal women in northern Quebec, a group of native women said Thursday. Despite...

OTTAWA - A Canadian soldier who was looking at ways to train the Jordanian military as part of Canada’s fight against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant has died, the Department of Nationa...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Nov. 17 --- CMHC SOUNDS INTEREST RATE WARNING: Canada’s federal housing agency says stress tests it has performed indicate a sudden rise in interest r...

EDMONTON - Alberta Progressive Conservative member Sandra Jansen crossed the floor to the governing NDP Thursday, saying the moderate party she called home for 30 years is moving to embrace a far-righ...

OTTAWA - A leaked draft of an online federal survey on electoral reform to be launched next month has raised suspicions that the Trudeau government is trying to skew the public consultation process to...

OTTAWA - Efforts by Canada’s anti-money laundering agency to pinpoint illicit dealings of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and other extremist organizations helped spark an increase in i...