Category Archives: Canada

EDMONTON - A man faces charges stemming from a political rally in Edmonton on the weekend. Police have charged Jason Bews, 34, with assault and uttering threats. The complainant is a reporter for The ...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba is launching an online ad campaign against the federal government’s health-care funding plan and is hinting other provinces may follow suit. The provincial government is star...

OTTAWA - Two-thirds of Canadians are happy with how their current voting system works, says a report detailing the findings of the Trudeau government’s online electoral reform survey. The report...

WINNIPEG - A Winnipeg woman and her son are millionaires because of a dream. Bahadur Sultani and his mother won $5.3 million in the Lotto 6-49 draw on Dec. 28. Sultani says his sister, who died years ...

OTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan plans to talk to his American counterpart before he pursues Canada’s plan to send peacekeepers to Africa, saying co-ordination with the U.S. is essential....

TORONTO - A media union says it’s been told by Postmedia that the company plans to cut 15 positions at the Ottawa Citizen and Montreal Gazette newspapers. CWA Canada said Tuesday that the cuts, ...

CALGARY - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau launched an impassioned defence for balancing the environment and economy at a raucous town hall in the heart of oil country Tuesday. A man wearing a shirt with...

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Jan. 24 --- TRUMP SIGNS KEYSTONE XL ORDER: The Keystone XL pipeline is back on – maybe. President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday potent...

Toronto police have charged a 15-year-old boy after a 17-year-old boy was stabbed at a school in the city. Police allege the two teens were involved in an altercation at the Thistletown Collegiate Ins...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s health minister says the province’s overdose prevention sites and at least one “sharing room” where people use drugs may not be legal under feder...