Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - Unlike his Saskatchewan counterpart, Nova Scotia’s premier is refusing to publicly mix it up with Ottawa over the potential imposition of either a carbon tax or cap-and-trade system, a...

OTTAWA - Two leading First Nations voices say the government’s new Supreme Court of Canada selection process creates unfair barriers for indigenous candidates due to its “functionally bili...

VICTORIA - Property purchase figures released Thursday by British Columbia’s government reveals a stampede of foreign home buyers scrambling to avoid paying an additional 15 per cent a tax in th...

ALERT BAY, B.C. - A nearly week-long holiday of swimming and munching on berries has come to an end for two grizzly bears that have been caught on a tiny island just off the north-east tip of Vancouve...

TORONTO - A small but fast growing Ontario community looking for a safe drinking water supply has been outbid in its attempt to buy a well by multinational giant Nestle, which acquired the site to ens...

OTTAWA - Conservative MP Jason Kenney has made his last speech in the House of Commons as he prepares to quit federal politics to focus on a bid to unite the provincial right in Alberta. Kenney’...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada officials were warned late last year that one of the country’s most important economic indicators was at risk of losing its relevance and accuracy. The red flag raised...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut RCMP say a bomb threat that caused evacuations at schools in three regions of the territory was a hoax. Mounties say all elementary schools, high schools and colleges have b...

HALIFAX - Shell Canada may have abandoned the first of its deepwater wells off Nova Scotia, but questions remain on what to do about an undersea coil of steel pipes - each weighing at least 20 tonnes ...

OTTAWA - A longtime refugee advocate says stories such as that of Liberal MP Maryam Monsef are not uncommon as families fleeing war and violence reconstruct their past in a new land. Monsef, widely to...