Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Canadian and European politicians are continuing to lobby a Belgian region this weekend to abandon its opposition to a coveted free trade deal before a key meeting on Tuesday. They have warne...

KELOWNA, B.C. - A retired RCMP officer and aviation enthusiast described as a “professional’s professional” was identified as the pilot in a plane crash that killed former Alberta pr...

VANCOUVER - The third and strongest storm in a series of disturbances fuelled by the remnants of typhoon Songda cancelled ferry service and knocked out power for thousands of customers on the south co...

EDMONTON - Former Alberta premier Dave Hancock says he remembers the Jim Prentice who didn’t shrink from a challenge when the Progressive Conservatives saw their government plunged into crisis o...

KIGALI, Rwanda - Nearly 200 nations have reached a deal, announced Saturday morning after all-night negotiations, to limit the use of greenhouse gases far more powerful than carbon dioxide in a major ...

MONTREAL - Even working 40 hours a week, Sara Vassigh says she sometimes has trouble paying her rent and bills at the end of the month. With a salary just above minimum wage, she says home ownership, ...

WINNIPEG - Brian Evans has a front-row seat to the slow but steady, and seemingly unstoppable, erosion that is eating away at Winnipeg’s riverbanks. The shoreline of his property on the Red Rive...

Ottawa was sleepy and mostly congenial all week long - at least until Friday - with most MPs back in their ridings after Thanksgiving and cabinet ministers off cutting ribbons in far-flung places. Pol...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for Friday night’s $16 million Lotto Max jackpot. That means the jackpot for the next draw on Oct. 21 will be approximately $25 million. The Canadian Press

MONTREAL - Buoyed by the success of similar campaigns elsewhere, a coalition calling for a $15 hourly minimum wage in Quebec will cap off a summer of action with a demonstration in Montreal on Saturda...