Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Australia’s deadlocked election last winter has been held up as a grim example of the chaos that could be unleashed in Canada were this country to adopt a system of ranked ballots - as ...

OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau has promised that last fall’s federal election will be the last conducted under the first-past-the-post voting system. In the past, the prime minister has expressed a pre...

OTTAWA - If Justin Trudeau gets his way on electoral reform, will the Liberals “steal” every federal election in perpetuity? As hearings on a new voting regime resume next Monday, the Cons...

OTTAWA - The federal government has yet to sign infrastructure funding agreements with five provinces and two territories - agreements that are a key step before any federal cash can flow to projects ...

WESTLOCK, Alta. - RCMP say a skydiver has died during a competition north of Edmonton. A police news release the 52-year-old man was “performing a high-performance technique” at the Edmont...

OTTAWA - The lawyer who successfully defended Sen. Mike Duffy shared details Sunday of what is was like to deal with the “daunting” level of media interest during his client’s politi...

OTTAWA - Prior to the Liberals’ Syrian resettlement program, the largest single group of refugees brought to Canada were Iraqis. Here is a look, by the numbers, of how that group compares to the...

OTTAWA - Thousands of Iraqi refugees found less work and earned less money in Canada than refugees from elsewhere who arrived during the same period, according to an internal government case study int...

GREENWOOD, N.S. - A member of the Royal Canadian Air Force faces drug and firearms charges after investigators said they seized marijuana and a non-military firearm from his Nova Scotia home. Canadian...

TORONTO - A government decision that stripped a woman of her airport security clearance and put her out of work more than two years ago was unfair, incomprehensible and unreasonable, a Federal Court j...