Tag Archives: National

OTTAWA - Newly released briefing notes for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau describe the dire state of federal computer systems, which deliver billions in benefits and are on the prec...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $27 million jackpot in Friday night's Lotto Max draw. That means the jackpot for the next draw on Feb. 4 will grow to approximately $32 million. The Canadi...

TORONTO - An Ontario Indigenous community has overwhelmingly rejected a proposed nuclear-waste bunker in their area. Members of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation voted 85 per cent against the deep geologic r...

TORONTO - Three men are dead and two are injured following a shooting that police said happened Friday night at an Airbnb rental in downtown Toronto. Police said the shooting call came in around ...

OTTAWA - The president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to voice "very serious concern" about proposed changes to medical assistance in dying...

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba First Nation has lost its bid to have Ottawa continue paying evacuation benefits to people forced from their homes by flooding in 2011. Lake St. Martin First Nation was seeking a...

OTTAWA - The Senate ethics committee is recommending that Sen. Lynn Beyak be suspended again without pay. Beyak's colleagues ousted her from the upper chamber temporarily last spring after c...

OTTAWA - Britain's envoy to Canada says she's personally sad about her country's decision to leave the European Union. But at the same time, High Commissioner Susan le Jeune d'Allegeershecque said she...

TORONTO - An Ontario senior public health official failed to disclose her close relationship with a convicted fraudster she had met online when she hired him as interim chief financial officer, a...

BOSTON - A court document says a woman from British Columbia would plead guilty to a single bribery charge under a proposed plea agreement in the college admissions scandal th...