Category Archives: Canada

Vancouver has voted to implement a one per cent tax on empty homes in a bid to alleviate the city’s crunched rental housing market. The tax, which is the first of its kind in Canada, will apply ...

PRINCE ALBERT, Sask. - A Saskatchewan city that had to shut down its water supply intakes for almost two months after crude oil leaked into a river was awarded second place in a water taste test. Prin...

VICTORIA - The deaths of three girls and the anguish of a mother who needed help for her schizophrenic daughter are described by British Columbia’s new children’s watchdog as life changing...

FREDERICTON - The New Brunswick government has withdrawn a controversial reference question it submitted to the province’s Court of Appeal regarding school bus services and minority language rig...

OTTAWA - Federal spending on First Nations health facilities is “a drop in the bucket” compared to what’s actually needed, Health Minister Jane Philpott conceded Wednesday to a commi...

MONTREAL - Nervousness in Silicon Valley about Donald Trump’s election could give Canada’s technology sector a competitive edge if new labour restrictions ratchet up the war for high-skill...

QUEBEC - The Quebec government officially launched a public inquiry on Wednesday into police surveillance of journalists. Jacques Chamberland, a judge with the province’s court of appeal, will c...

OTTAWA - As the federal government whittles away a backlog of payroll problems caused by its new pay system, officials say new payroll entries are taking an “unacceptable” amount of time t...

OTTAWA - New Democrats have dropped their opposition to holding a national referendum on electoral reform in a bid to pressure the governing Liberals into agreeing to a proportional voting system. The...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Nov. 16. -- CANADA, MEXICO DISCUSSED NAFTA AFTER U.S. ELECTION: Canada and Mexico reached out to each other while preparing similar public messages last we...