Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says a formal agreement to prop up the minority Liberal government is not on the table, but his party is "open to discussions" about ways to make Parliament work. Sin...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - The Newfoundland and Labrador government revealed Tuesday that whoever was behind a cyberattack that has hobbled its health-care system managed to obtain personal information of pat...

OTTAWA - The lawyer for a member of the Conservative party's national council is calling a probe into his client's attempts to hasten a review of Erin O'Toole's leadership a "fishing expedition." Bert...

QUEBEC - The head of Quebec's anti-corruption unit says he's considering a rebranding exercise for his troubled police force. Frdrick Gaudreau told reporters today his police unit is ready to take a n...

QUEBEC - A Quebec bill that would have allowed only people who have undergone surgery to change their sex on identification documents will be changed. The bill introduced Oct. 21 by Justice Minister S...

Canada ranks sixth in the world's first drug policy index, but experts say its passing grade is nothing to be proud of as status quo policies are doing little to curb thousands of deaths yearly. The G...

OTTAWA - The chief climate officer for Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the federal agency has "lots underway" to encourage the construction of more sustainable housing. Steven Mennill says a fi...

WASHINGTON - Court documents filed by the federal government say planning is well underway for bilateral talks in the dispute over the Line 5 cross-border pipeline. A proposed motion filed last week i...

OTTAWA - Lori Idlout, the new MP for Nunavut, is to be sworn in as an MP in Inuktitut, her mother tongue. The House of Commons is paying for translation services for the formal ceremony, which will ta...

OTTAWA - Health Canada has approved a booster of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for people over the age of 18. The booster is designed to help people with their first two COVID-19 vaccine doses ma...