Author Archives: Syndicated Content

OTTAWA - Federal Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald says Benoit Basillais has been reappointed as CEO of the Canadian Dairy Commission. Basillais will serve an additional three-year term effective J...

HALIFAX - Five public libraries in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley will be permanently closed later this month because of a lack of funding. The 11-branch Annapolis Valley Regional Library system says ...

Alberta is rolling out a new surgery funding model that ties money to patients, starting in a dozen public hospitals across the province. The government calls it patient-focused funding and says it be...

WASHINGTON - Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc is set to travel to Washington on Tuesday to meet with his American counterpart as official negotiations between Ottawa and the Trump administra...

VICTORIA - Two former B.C. Conservative legislators now sitting as Independents say new leader Kerry-Lynne Findlay will polarize the province. Amelia Boultbee said Findlay's victory on Saturday showed...

SURREY - Police in Surrey, B.C., are investigating after video of people vandalizing a rainbow crosswalk was posted on social media over the weekend by the leader of a registered political party. Poli...

OTTAWA - A survey commissioned by the federal government late last year suggests nearly half of Canadians believe the country is admitting too many immigrants - but the share of respondents who think ...

MONTREAL - Political figures in Quebec and Ottawa have denounced a white supremacist rally held on May 30 in Shawinigan, Que., in the Mauricie region northeast of Montreal. Masked individuals displaye...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre laid the blame for a string of bad economic results directly at the feet of Prime Minister Mark Carney on Monday, a strategy the Liberals chalked up to "p...

MONTREAL - An international student from the Democratic Republic of Congo says she was blocked from returning to Montreal because of Ebola-related travel restrictions - despite the fact she hasn't vis...