Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - A look at the federal government’s latest economic update, by the numbers: - Deficit to rise to $25.1 billion this year, from the $23.4 billion forecast in last spring’s federal b...

Highlights from the news file for Wednesday, Nov. 2 MORNEAU SAYS INVESTORS WANT INFRASTRUCTURE AGENCY: Canada’s finance minister says the country needs a new agency designed to pump private doll...

EDMONTON - Two agencies overseeing thousands of home-schooled children in Alberta are asking a court to reverse the province’s decision to pull funding and accreditation over allegations of miss...

SUDBURY, Ont. - The Ontario Provincial Police have laid Election Act bribery charges against a former top staffer of Premier Kathleen Wynne and a Liberal fundraiser. The allegations date back to a bye...

FORT LAUDERDALE, United States - U.S. President Barack Obama has sounded the alarm bell about an apparent decline in black voter turnout in this election, pointing to early-voting data that’s no...

An Ontario doctor once suspended for inseminating women with the wrong sperm at his fertility clinic is now accused of allegedly using his own biological material to impregnate certain patients who ca...

WINNIPEG - New federal money for First Nations housing is welcome but will not solve a monumental shortage for at least a generation, an indigenous leader said Wednesday. “I don’t see it h...

CALGARY - The federal Liberals are promising to run all government operations on renewable energy within a decade, Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said Wednesday. Speaking in Calgary to the Can...

MONTREAL - Canadian construction firms and pension fund managers see opportunities from increased federal infrastructure spending, even though projects approved in the last year have been slow to get ...

OTTAWA - Canada’s finance minister began the job Wednesday of selling his government’s new vehicle for building the country’s infrastructure - and, the Liberals hope, the economy - a...