Category Archives: Canada

Four stories in the news for Friday, Sept. 6 --- CANADA'S ANDREESCU ADVANCES TO US OPEN FINAL Canada's Bianca Andreescu will attempt to make Canadian tennis history in the US Open women's si...

TORONTO - Bianca Andreescu's break-out year, culminating with a historic win in the finals of the US Open, is expected to provide a huge boost to Canadian tennis. "It inspires everyone to pick up...

CALGARY - Parliamentary security says it made a mistake telling an Alberta man he wasn't allowed to wear a T-shirt in support of Canadian oil and gas during a visit to the Senate. William La...

VANCOUVER - A coalition of nine taxi companies has asked British Columbia Supreme Court to quash policies it says were illegally created for ride-hailing companies but the province's tr...

OTTAWA - Patty Hajdu remembers encountering an angry - and racist - person at the doorstep. "I hit a door where someone said, 'Oh, you're a Liberal?'" Hajdu, the federal employment minister seeki...

OTTAWA - The federal government's effort to rein in the cost of reimbursing veterans for their medical marijuana appears to have failed as new figures show Ottawa shelled out a record $75 million in t...

OTTAWA - Former overseas hostage Joshua Boyle says he was concerned for his wife Caitlan Coleman's safety the winter night she fled their Ottawa apartment in stocking feet, accusing Boyle of assa...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. - Massachusetts' attorney general is calling on political leaders in the United States and Canada to take stronger measures to protect the endangered North Atlantic right wh...

HALIFAX - The centre of hurricane Dorian was still hundreds of kilometres from the Maritimes when its outer bands started lashing southern New Brunswick and mainland Nova Scotia with strong ...

OTTAWA - China uses arbitrary detentions as a tool to achieve its international and domestic political goals, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday. He called that a pressure tactic that is...