Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - People looking to secure health insurance from Manulife may no longer be subjected to nicotine testing, as the company looks to streamline the application process. The insurer (TSX:MFC) says...

FREDERICTON - New Brunswick Finance Minister Cathy Rogers tabled an $9.4 billion budget for 2017-18 on Tuesday. Here are some of the highlights: – A projected deficit of $192 million, with a pro...

CENTRAL SAANICH, B.C. - When he climbed on his Zamboni after a snowstorm Monday night and headed down the road to his aunt’s house, Marko Kardum says he was just trying to be a good nephew. Cent...

OTTAWA - People should not expect to see the kinds of hearings usually found in courtrooms when the inquiry into missing and murdered indigenous women begins, lead commissioner Marion Buller said Tues...

ST-HYACINTHE, Que. - Two Quebec teens who allegedly plotted to kill fellow classmates will return to court next month. They appeared in court in St-Hyacinthe today as the Crown asked for its own exper...

OTTAWA - The country posted back-to-back monthly trade surpluses for the first time since September 2014, boosted by higher prices for exports of oil and natural gas in December, Statistics Canada sai...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The creation of a unique Newfoundland aboriginal band meant to help rectify historical injustices against Mi’kmaq has prompted anger and confusion, as tens of thousands ...

HALIFAX - A Halifax professor who has partnered with Tesla to make better lithium-ion batteries - and, he hopes, help mitigate climate change - has won Canada’s top science award. Dr. Jeff Dahn ...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The day after Const. Joe Smyth of the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary fatally shot Don Dunphy, an RCMP investigator reassured him during questioning that he’d acted in s...

OTTAWA - With just days to go before the very first release of data from the 2016 census, there is an unusual calm outside Marc Hamel’s Statistics Canada office. A calm before the storm, perhaps...