Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - A two day marijuana exhibition in Vancouver is giving people an idea of just how large and varied Canada’s cannabis industry has become - and where it could grow next. More than 100 ...

TORONTO - A spokeswoman for Unifor says there has been some progress in the union’s negotiations with General Motors. The union’s contract with the Detroit Three automakers - GM, Ford and ...

HALIFAX - About three months ago, Kenny Cooley nervously signed his name on a sign-up sheet to tryout for boys tackle football. His anxiety about tryouts were not that of a typical teenager. Cooley is...

OTTAWA - A date for a federal byelection in Alberta has been set following the death of Conservative M-P Jim Hillyer. The vote in the Medicine Hat-Cardston-Warner riding will be held on Monday, Oct. 2...

NEW YORK - Justin Trudeau will use his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly this week to present his brand of economics as an antidote to the angry nationalist politics flaring up on di...

OTTAWA - The federal NDP will turn to its network of social activists to woo progressives back to the party fold this fall, according to the party’s new national director. Nearly a year after th...

OTTAWA - The Conservatives are planning to push the Liberals to better define their plans for a United Nations peacekeeping mission - and their reason for taking one on. “There is no peace to ke...

OTTAWA - Parliament reopens for business Monday after a 12-week summer break. Here’s a look at the priorities the three main political parties have staked out and the challenges each faces in wh...

OTTAWA - Now for the hard part. After 10 months of a prolonged honeymoon, consultations on dozens of difficult issues and soaring rhetoric that suggested anything is possible, Justin Trudeau’s L...

SAINT HYACINTHE, Pq - Two Quebec teens have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder and assault in an alleged plot against three of their peers. The suspects, ages 14 and 16, were arrested in Sa...