Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - A proportional voting system may have spared western Canada the imposition of the national energy program, Ed Broadbent suggested Monday. The former NDP leader said the infamous program, whic...

TORONTO - Banning long-term expat citizens from voting in federal elections has no pressing objective that justifies infringing on their constitutional rights, two of them argue in new documents filed...

CALGARY - The head of a national group that represents canola farmers says they’re concerned that China’s plan to impose stricter import regulations on the crop this week will put them at ...

OTTAWA - One side benefit of Canada’s return to peacekeeping is that it could end up costing a lot less than leading a NATO force in Latvia or the war in Iraq. The Liberal government announced l...

BRIDGEWATER, N.S. - A veteran police chief in Bridgewater, N.S., has been placed on leave while investigators look into allegations of sexual assault and obstruction of justice made against him in rel...

TORONTO - Detectives investigating a triple homicide in which two men died of crossbow bolt and arrow injuries and one woman was strangled are trying to figure out what motivated the attack at a home ...

MONTREAL - Parti Quebecois leadership candidate Martine Ouellet says she would consider nationalizing Internet infrastructure in Quebec if telecommunications companies failed to comply with certain de...

OTTAWA - Former prime minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative government discussed free trade with China, but chose instead to focus its energy on the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Canada’s...

OTTAWA - The federal government has released new numbers about shelter usage in Canada that show fewer people are staying in shelters, but those stays are getting longer. The study provides details fo...

OTTAWA - Fewer beds remain empty each night in Canada’s emergency homeless shelters as users stay days, sometimes weeks, longer than they did a decade ago, even as their overall numbers decline....