Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - New numbers released Friday show the federal government ran a deficit of $2.8 billion over the first four months of 2016-17 - dropping Ottawa’s fiscal position $8 billion lower than it ...

FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government is reinstating French immersion in Grade 1, starting in September 2017. The change was a Liberal campaign promise in 2014. “We are delivering on our pr...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - Samsung says it is working with Health Canada to address potential safety issues with certain top-loading, high-efficiency washing machines that can vibrate to the point where they...

OTTAWA - The Canadian economy beat expectations in July with fresh data showing it expanded 0.5 per cent as the country continued moving away from a contraction earlier in the year. Statistics Canada ...

Six stories in the news for Friday, Sept. 30. --- PM TRUDEAU LEADS CANADIAN DELEGATION AT PERES FUNERAL The funeral ceremony for former Israeli President Shimon Peres is underway in Jerusalem. A milit...

JERUSALEM - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his Liberal and Conservative predecessors and political luminaries from around the world gathered Friday to mourn Shimon Peres - the Israeli statesman hailed...

HAIDA GWAII, B.C. - Prince William and Kate arrived at a small village off the coast of B.C. on Friday in a replica 15-metre Haida war canoe, ferried to the remote island by paddlers wearing T-shirts ...

CALGARY - The sister of a man charged in the shooting death of a Canadian Football League player says she’s praying “the truth will come out” to prove his innocence. “I donR...

BANFF, Alta. - Delays caused by the replacement of a panel reviewing the Energy East Pipeline project show that Canada’s regulatory system is flawed and must be fixed, says a former CEO of propo...

OTTAWA - While the Liberal government is looking at joining UN peacekeeping missions in Africa and the Canadian Forces are finalizing plans to support French counter-terrorism efforts there with trans...