Category Archives: Canadian Press

OTTAWA - The Liberal government has done its part with measures to bolster diversity on corporate boards at publicly traded companies, and now is the time for business leaders to pick up the torch, sa...

OTTAWA - Western grain farmers are on the verge of getting some long-sought federal help against the threat of rail backlogs, but face seeing their relief delayed over threats of political gamesmanshi...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia Attorney General David Eby says he cancelled a town hall meeting on a property-tax increase amid security concerns ignited by the leader of the Opposition. Eby said he bec...

It has been one year since the bodies of Francesca Matus and her American lover were found tangled together in a sugar cane field in Belize. The urn holding the Canadian woman’s ashes now sits i...

OTTAWA - Members of Parliament on all sides of the House of Commons voted Tuesday to extend a formal invitation to Pope Francis to apologize in person to Indigenous Peoples for decades of abuse meted ...

HALIFAX - A call by a group of Democratic senators who argue a U.S. agency should audit the job Canada is doing to protect endangered whales is drawing a cool reaction from an American scientist who p...

TORONTO - Mandi Gray admits she’s anxious about being the face of the new Canadian documentary “Slut or Nut: The Diary of a Rape Trial.” “Even coming here today, it was really ...

OTTAWA - Guy Boucher will be back behind the Ottawa Senators bench next season, and so will his entire staff. Speaking on Ottawa radio station TSN 1200, Senators general manager Pierre Dorion confirme...

TORONTO - Public backlash prompted Doug Ford to backtrack Tuesday on an election promise to allow housing development in a protected green space around the Toronto region, with the Progressive Conserv...

OTTAWA - Canadians have amassed a $2-trillion mountain of household debt that’s casting a big shadow over the timing of the Bank of Canada’s next interest rate hike, governor Stephen Poloz...