Category Archives: Canada

KAMLOOPS, B.C. - A mother who drowned her newborn son in a sink before leaving her home to write a university exam has avoided time behind bars, though a judge described her actions as “abhorren...

OTTAWA - A comprehensive measure of Canada’s national wealth shows it has been stagnant for decades and is too heavily dependent on housing and oil and gas, says a groundbreaking national report...

OTTAWA - An internal defence study that dismissed any plan to buy “interim” fighter jets because of “significant additional costs,” has been pulled off the National Defence web...

WINNIPEG - Five deaths this year at the Winnipeg Remand Centre are a sharp increase from previous years and internal reviews on two deaths have already been completed, documents obtained by The Canadi...

WASHINGTON - With the nomination of retired general James (Mad Dog) Mattis as his defence secretary Thursday, Donald Trump has now named about half his cabinet. This allows some tea-leaf-reading about...

TORONTO - The agency charged with overseeing Ontario’s physicians issued a scathing reprimand to a former family doctor who it says lured a patient into his office after hours “under the p...

OTTAWA - A special all-party Commons committee is recommending a new proportional voting system, along with a national referendum to gauge public support for changing the way Canadians vote. Some fact...

MONTREAL - The decision by international food giant Mondelez to close a cookie and cracker factory in Montreal by 2017 is final, a company spokeswoman said Thursday. As a result, 454 jobs will be elim...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Dec. 1 --- COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS PROPORTIONAL VOTING SYSTEM: A special all-party committee is recommending that the Trudeau government design a new proportio...

TORONTO - Following an uproar from consumers, the company that runs the Air Miles loyalty points program says it is cancelling plans that would have seen collectors lose any miles not used within five...