Tag Archives: National

OTTAWA - Call it the Iowa of the federal Conservative leadership race. Just as that state is the first stop on the road to the U.S. presidency, on Saturday Nova Scotia is the setting for the debut gro...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $40 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw. That means the jackpot for the next draw on Feb. 11 will be approximately $50 million, and two Maxmil...

SMITHERS, B.C. - A hereditary chief of the Wet'suwet'en nation says a woman has been arrested aboard a bus where she was living in northern British Columbia as police enforce an injunction relate...

OTTAWA - Conservatives are accusing Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of stacking Canada's courts with Liberal partisans, pointing to a recently appointed judge who has donated almost $26,000 to...

QUEBEC - The Coalition Avenir Quebec government is set to invoke closure for a fourth time in eight months as it looks to pass an education bill that would spell the end of school boards across the pr...

CALGARY - Alberta's environment minister says the province is not interested in any federal handout if Ottawa rejects the proposed Frontier oilsands mine. A Reuters report, citing unidentified sources...

WAYCOBAH, N.S. - An investigation into allegations that an Indigenous hockey player faced racist taunts during a recent game in Cape Breton has determined the verbal...

WAYCOBAH, N.S. - An investigation into allegations that an Indigenous hockey player faced racist taunts during a recent game in Cape Breton has determined the verbal...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Institutes of Health Research is set to release some urgent funding to study the novel coronavirus - including the fear it causes. The federal granting agency says it wants ...

GUERNSEY, Sask. - The Transportation Safety Board says a fire continues to burn at the site of a train derailment in Saskatchewan and investigators can't access the site. It says one investigator...