Category Archives: Canada

CALGARY - As they finish harvesting this year’s crop, Canadian honey producers say they are being stung with prices that have fallen by about 50 per cent since a year ago, a devastating blow tha...

OTTAWA - The federal government will go to six cities in the coming months to test ideas that could end up in a promised national poverty reduction strategy. Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Ducl...

HALIFAX - The small boat is taking on water, its ripped sails flapping furiously in rough seas as a 68-year-old man struggles at the helm of the vessel in distress hundreds of kilometres off Newfoundl...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The federal and New Brunswick governments are set to spend another $56 million on affordable housing in the province. Jean-Yves Duclos, the federal minister for families, children a...

SHANGHAI - A quick look at some of the key developments Friday during Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s ongoing visit to China. ___ The prime minister talked trade and investment with business lea...

OTTAWA - Canadian exports picked up in July, raising hopes for a bounce back in the economy after it contracted in the second quarter. Statistics Canada said Friday the country’s trade deficit n...

MONTREAL - Bombardier has received the final instalment of Quebec’s US$1-billion investment in the company’s CSeries commercial jet program. The Montreal-based company announced on June 23...

WINNIPEG - Closing arguments in the trial of a Winnipeg woman charged with hiding the remains of six infants in a storage locker have been delayed. The judge hearing the case of Andrea Giesbrecht agre...

TORONTO - The family of a Toronto-area resident who had been detained in Egypt without charge says the man has returned to Canada. Khaled Al-Qazzaz - a permanent resident of Canada and a University of...

VANCOUVER - Some facts on home sale figures for August released Friday by the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver, the first month of data available since the B.C. government brought in a tax on fo...