Author Archives: Taylor MacPherson

OTTAWA - Contrary to popular belief, the choice made by voters in the Montreal-area riding of Terrebonne in the April 13 byelection will have major implications on moving bills forward in the House of...

OTTAWA - New Democrats from across the country are gathering in Winnipeg for the party's convention, where a new federal party leader will be chosen by the end of the weekend. After a six-month leader...

Police in Victoria are asking pro-Palestine protesters to stop marching on public roads on their way to the legislature building, citing the drain on police resources from attending the event 126 time...

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Ottawa is working in "full co-operation" with officials in the United States to probe the crash of an Air Canada jet at New York's LaGuardia Airport that killed two pil...

OTTAWA - The union representing staff at Global Affairs Canada says the foreign service is laying off dozens of its highest-skilled diplomats, while asking other envoys moving across continents to wai...

If lower interest rates can't push homebuyers off the sidelines, perhaps a year's worth of free borrowing costs will. That's the hope for one developer whose offer joins a growing list of incentives a...

OTTAWA - An aviation expert says Canada is losing more air traffic controllers to retirement than it is hiring, despite efforts to ramp up recruitment. John Gradek, a faculty lecturer with McGill Univ...

A popular ice-fishing derby in northern Saskatchewan is dealing with allegations of misconduct by a participant. The Montreal Lake Cree Nation issued a statement saying it became aware that a particip...

Tim McLeod, Saskatchewan's justice minister and attorney general, is responding to the Crown's decision to stay charges against Romana Didulo. Didulo, the self-proclaimed "Queen of Canada" was previou...

OTTAWA - Canada's auditor general says the federal government is running out of time to clear the backlog of public service pay transactions under the old Phoenix system to avoid infecting the new sys...