Category Archives: Canada

CALGARY - Former Alberta premier Jim Prentice was remembered Friday as a principled public servant, a humble leader and a champion of indigenous and environmental causes. But much of a public state me...

MEADOW LAKE, Sask. - People who say their lives changed forever the day a teen took a gun and went to a high school and a home in northern Saskatchewan - killing four and wounding seven - want him pun...

VEGREVILLE, Alta. - The mayor of an Alberta town says he will fight the relocation of the federal immigration and refugee processing centre that has been the community’s major employer since it ...

Highlights from the news file for Thursday, Oct. 27 TRUDEAU NAMES NINE TO SENATE: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau named nine new, non-partisan senators to the Senate Thursday. The five women and four me...

OTTAWA - A condensed and edited version of the biographical information released Thursday by the Prime Minister’s Office about the nine Canadians recommended for the Senate by Justin Trudeau: __...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government is taking the war on fentanyl abuse to the next level by exploring a plan to set up safe, supervised sites for opioid use. Brandy Payne, Alberta’s associate min...

CALGARY - Former journalist Arthur Kent asked an Alberta judge Thursday to award him $1.2 million for his legal costs in a successful defamation lawsuit against Canada’s largest newspaper chain....

TORONTO - Concerns about foreign investors snapping up real estate have dominated headlines recently, but a new report suggests domestic investors outnumber foreign buyers in the Greater Toronto Area&...

MONTREAL - Call it acronym acrimony. The province’s anti-corruption unit certainly wasn’t laughing over a public-sector union’s appropriation of the word ”UPAC.” The four...

VANCOUVER - The federal government is standing behind its decision to approve the massive Pacific NorthWest LNG project, despite facing new court challenges and accusations that it has broken climate ...