Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The House of Commons Heritage committee study of “media and local communities” is looking at the state of Canada’s news industry in the digital age. A few facts about its in...

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Nov. 15. -- RBC HIKING MORTGAGE RATES: Royal Bank is raising its mortgage rates and making it more expensive for homebuyers who want to take more than 25 yea...

MONTREAL - Crown officials will not lay charges against Quebec provincial police in the alleged sexual abuse of indigenous women, various media reported Tuesday. The reports quoted unnamed sources as ...

CALGARY - A former police officer is facing 11 criminal code charges that include kidnapping and obstruction of justice. “These are serious criminal charges. Full stop,” Ray Robitaille, de...

VICTORIA - Health officials in Victoria are asking for public feedback in a bid to open two supervised drug consumption sites in a city where overdoses are continuing to surpass other regions in the p...

OTTAWA - The bastion of Canadian establishment journalism and a pugnacious media upstart took turns ripping into the publicly funded CBC in testimony Tuesday to the Commons Heritage committee. The pub...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government is trying to dispel fears about its plan to tap some of the world’s wealthiest institutional investors to help fund infrastructure projects in Canada. In an inter...

OTTAWA - The issue of sexual abuse in indigenous communities, documented during an investigation by The Canadian Press, has been raised in the House of Commons, where the federal government faces pres...

VICTORIA - A former New Brunswick politician and the province’s first child advocate is British Columbia’s acting representative for children and youth and is slated to assume to post full...

OTTAWA - The issue of sexual abuse in indigenous communities, documented during an investigation by The Canadian Press, was raised in the House of Commons on Tuesday, where the federal government face...