Author Archives: Syndicated Content

VICTORIA - British Columbia Forests Minister Ravi Parmar says the province is sending almost 100 wildland firefighters to Ontario, where fires have been threatening several communities near the Manito...

Aidan McLaren-Caux is used to being stopped in grocery store aisles by people who want to discuss issues as a local politician, but a federal agency's decision to cull a flock of 400 ostriches in Edge...

ST. JOHN'S - A long weekend looms with no decision yet in a federal election vote recount in the central Newfoundland riding of Terra Nova-The Peninsulas. The judicial recount began Monday in Marystow...

MONTREAL - A Quebec labour tribunal has begun hearing a case against Amazon over the e-commerce giant's closure in January of seven warehouses in the province. Some 1,700 employees lost their jobs fol...

CALGARY - The mayor of Crowsnest Pass in southwestern Alberta says the Alberta Energy Regulator's approval of a controversial coal exploration project on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains is l...

TORONTO - An Ontario judge has ruled that repeated strip searches of teen girls accused in the fatal swarming of a homeless Toronto man were unconstitutional. Four of the eight girls accused in the at...

OTTAWA - Former Conservative member of Parliament Stockwell Day says Alberta separatism poses a threat to the federal Conservative party - which risks seeing a return to the kind of vote-splitting tha...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - A federal jury on Friday convicted a former Tennessee House speaker and his onetime chief of staff in a scheme to win taxpayer-funded mail business from state lawmakers even af...

WASAGA - Ontario announced today it will invest nearly $40 million to help revitalize Wasaga Beach. Premier Doug Ford says $25 million will go toward rebuilding the Nancy Island Historic Site. That si...

CALGARY - The head of a group representing Calgary's business community says a referendum on separation would inflict grave damage on the economies of Alberta and Canada - regardless of the result. "B...