Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Unifor and General Motors of Canada have reached a tentative contract settlement, averting a walkout that was scheduled to begin on Monday night at 11:59 p.m. ET. The four-year pact, which c...

TORONTO - A new report suggests women are joining the growing ranks of Ontario’s entrepreneurs in increasing numbers, outpacing the rest of the country. The Ontario edition of the Global 2015 En...

EDMONTON - Even a geologist will admit these brownish-grey, fine-grained, indifferently striped rocks look boring. But a University of Alberta-led team has teased apart the chemistry of these stones f...

OTTAWA - The country’s former chief statistician is casting doubt on the Liberal government’s promised commitments to Statistics Canada based on its handling of an issue that forced his su...

HALIFAX - The candidates for Halifax’s highest municipal office have agreed to ditch lawn signs as a way of sending a message that political campaigns shouldn’t produce unnecessary waste. ...

BISHOPS FALLS, N.L. - Atlantic Canadians are offering financial support and encouragement for a young hockey player from Bishop’s Falls, Newfoundland, who suffered a serious head injury in a car...

Five stories in the news today from The Canadian Press --- CANADA’S TATIANA MASLANY HONOURED WITH EMMY She’s known as one of the hardest working women in TV, and last night Tatiana Maslany...

TORONTO - An Ontario woman consumed by her religious beliefs not only turned a blind eye to the violence her husband inflicted on his daughter but encouraged the abuse that led to the girl’s dea...

OTTAWA - British pensioners living in Canada are lobbying the Liberal government to make indexing their pensions to the cost of living a requirement for any future free trade deal with Britain - an ag...

OTTAWA - Anne Puckridge has two medals, earned during her service to Britain in the Second World War. The 91-year-old jokes that she is still fighting - except now it is against the British government...