Category Archives: Canada

Halifax is asking residents to trade in guns for bus tickets. The municipality launched a promotion Monday that encourages people to turn in unwanted and unregistered firearms in exchange for Halifax ...

VANCOUVER - The youngest royal will arrive in British Columbia later this month for her first international appearance alongside her brother and parents, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Princess Ch...

TORONTO - A new report suggests people living in remote northern Ontario communities spend more than half their income on food to meet basic nutritional needs. The report from Food Secure Canada looke...

OTTAWA - Former prime minister Stephen Harper has landed himself a job with an international law firm. Dentons announced Monday that Harper has teamed up with the firm to provide clients with advice o...

CALGARY - Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan and Agrium have agreed to merge in a deal that would create a dominant player in the global agricultural industry worth an estimated US$36 billion. The pact anno...

Seven stories in the news today from The Canadian Press --- FINAL ARGUMENTS TO BE MADE IN CASE AGAINST JUDGE Closing arguments are scheduled today in the case of a Federal Court judge facing possible ...

OTTAWA - The previous Conservative government at one point considered working toward giving women a majority of the nine seats on the Supreme Court of Canada, said former justice minister Peter MacKay...

MONTREAL - The apple harvesting period may come as a relief to many Quebec growers who have spent the summer fighting a contagious disease spreading through their trees. For the next four or five week...

TORONTO - With Parliament poised to look at changes to how temporary foreign workers are treated, people who came as live-in caregivers are speaking out about what they call injustices within the fede...

MONTREAL - Representatives of Montreal’s taxi industry are scheduled to meet Tuesday to draft a response to the recent deal between the provincial government and ride-hailing company Uber. Taxi ...