Category Archives: Canada

CALGARY - A hearing is to begin Tuesday for a Federal Court judge who asked a sexual assault complainant why she couldn't just keep her knees together. The Canadian Judicial Council is to determine wh...

HANGZHOU, China - Justin Trudeau spent days urging world leaders to fight back against rising anti-trade sentiments, but he says there’s little risk that protectionist forces seen in the United ...

VANCOUVER - Public outcry over British Columbia’s sizzling real estate market pushed the province’s Liberal government to introduce a foreign-buyers’ tax last month, but uncertainty ...

HANGZHOU, China - International Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland says British Prime Minister Theresa May has reaffirmed her government’s post-Brexit support for Canada’s free trade deal wi...

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says the province has made big strides in improving sexual minority rights. Notley took part in Calgary’s annual pride parade on Sunday, noting that since...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Rona Ambrose told CTV that she doesn’t support Kellie Leitch’s proposal to screen new immigrants for “anti-Canadian values.” Leitch, a Conservative...

MONTREAL - In the basement of a public housing complex on the outskirts of downtown Montreal is a large walk-in freezer used solely to kill bed bugs. The freezer is a local solution to a problem that ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Stan Dragland fell for Newfoundland like a lover. The Alberta-born writer was an Ontario-based English literature professor on sabbatical when he got to know the island, and f...

EDMONTON - Alberta’s deputy premier says the province is open to negotiating an out-of-court deal to resolve a potential $2-billion power dispute with private operators. But Sarah Hoffman says t...

HANGZHOU, China - Concerns about the impact of protectionist sentiments on key Canadian trade talks led senior government members to dedicate some of their scarce face time to the issue Sunday with G2...