Category Archives: Canada

Four stories in the news for Monday, Dec. 19 --- FEDS AND PROVINCES DICKER OVER HEALTH CARE FUNDING Canada’s finance and health ministers meet today to try to reach an agreement on federal fundi...

OTTAWA - The federal government is to sit down Monday with the provinces for some tough negotiations on the future of health-care funding in Canada. Shortly before a Sunday dinner meeting with their f...

Calgary police have had more officer-involved shootings than any other city in Canada in 2016. Calgary police Chief Roger Chaffin believes there is something wrong and has called for an independent pr...

OTTAWA - The federal government is seeking a way to regulate underwater shipping noise as part of its plan to protect an endangered group of killer whales from increased oil tanker traffic off Vancouv...

A Canadian Forces probe of cadet dress-code pamphlets has uncovered eight containing “unacceptable language,” months after controversy over a similar recruitment leaflet that “shamed...

CALGARY - Grant Heffernan thinks about his young brother every day but more so each time he hears there’s been another shooting by police in Calgary. “We were thinking that with my brother...

OTTAWA - The federal government has reached a tentative contract with a public sector union in a deal that involves 68,000 public servants. The Public Service Alliance of Canada says it includes a pay...

ST. ALBERT, Alta. - An Alberta man who saw a murder conviction in the case of his missing parents replaced with manslaughter because of a judge’s error wants “zombie” sections of the...

CONCEPTION BAY SOUTH, N.L. - Edward ‘Kip’ Malone says he has been dogged by the “mystery” of what ever happened to two young girls he rescued from a house fire in St. John̵...

OTTAWA - Businessman Kevin O’Leary hasn’t decided whether he’ll enter the Conservative leadership race, but that isn’t stopping those already in the race from going after him. ...