Category Archives: Canada

EDMONTON - The only two female candidates in the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership contest quit the race Tuesday. One of them, Sandra Jansen, said she had been harassed and intimidated and a...

SASKATOON - A chief says it’s about time for indigenous leaders to take charge of the youth suicide crisis in northern Saskatchewan instead of going to funerals. Ron Michel, grand chief of the P...

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Nov. 8 ___ U.S. PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN EXPOSED FRACTURES: And the prize is: A big, ugly wound in the heart of American politics. Nearly two years of relentles...

MONTREAL - A Montreal woman with ties to an international feminist group was arrested Tuesday after staging a topless protest inside a New York City polling station being used for the U.S. presidentia...

EDMONTON - Alberta is proposing legislation that would allow people who don’t identify as either male or female to put a third gender marker such as an X on government documents. “With thi...

OTTAWA - The outcome of a Prince Edward Island plebiscite on electoral reform is giving hope to those who are pushing Canada to adopt a proportional voting system. But the fact that so few Islanders b...

Home construction is slowing down in British Columbia, with housing starts in Vancouver falling to their lowest level in more than five years, according to the latest data from Canada Mortgage and Hou...

HALIFAX - She is 900 kilograms, has her own Twitter feed and may be cruising East Coast waters in a dizzying, long-distance quest for love. Lydia, the aptly named “rock-star” of the great ...

DAWSON CITY, Yukon - Sandy Silver led the Liberal party from just one seat in Yukon’s legislature to a majority government in Monday night’s election. Here’s a sketch of the territor...

TORONTO - Ontario will take steps next week to deal with rising house prices in the Toronto area, but it will not follow British Columbia’s lead and impose a tax on foreign buyers. Finance Minis...