Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Diane Ford, the mother of Ontario Premier Doug Ford and the late Toronto mayor Rob Ford, has died at the age of 85. The premier's office said the Ford matriarch died in her Etobicoke home on...

A Manitoba legislator is calling on Canadians to contact the federal heritage minister to remove two poems, written by the killer of an Indigenous woman, from the Parliamentary Poet Laureate...

OTTAWA - Canada says it is closely monitoring developments after Iraq's parliament called for the expulsion of foreign troops from the country. But a spokesman for Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan would...

OTTAWA - Federal Conservatives will gather in Toronto on June 27 to pick their next leader. A decision to set the date for the vote was made Friday, the latest development in the effort to replac...

OTTAWA - The federal Liberals are being told to avoid creating a one-size-fits-all national school-food program to replace the existing patchwork of efforts to feed hungry children. The Liberals promi...

TORONTO - The arrival of legal cannabis edibles, vapes and other products in Ontario won't necessarily meet the government's stated goal of cutting into the black market, according to industry observe...

HALIFAX - A passenger jet skidded off the end of a runway at the Halifax Stanfield International Airport on Sunday, but a spokeswoman for WestJet said there were no injuries. The city a...

OTTAWA - The safety of Canadians in the Middle East is the government's "paramount concern" following the death of a top Iranian general in an American airstrike, Foreign Affairs Minister Francois-Phi...

A celebrated Canadian poet has cancelled a lecture about Indigenous justice issues at the University of Regina following outrage over his working relationship and friendship with the killer of a local...

REGINA - A celebrated Canadian poet has cancelled a lecture about Indigenous justice issues at the University of Regina following outrage over his working relationship and friendship with th...