Tag Archives: National

OTTAWA - A quick look at Canada's January employment figures (numbers from the previous month in brackets): Unemployment rate: 6.6 per cent (6.7) Employment rate: 61.1 per cent (61.0) Participation ra...

QUBEC - Former Montreal mayor Denis Coderre's bid to become the next leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec was in jeopardy Friday after the party announced it wouldn't accept his candidacy. The party ...

OTTAWA - The federal government is hosting a summit in Toronto today aimed at bolstering the economy in the face of Canada's rapidly changing relationship with its largest trading partner. U.S. Presid...

OTTAWA - Federal Liberal leadership candidates will have to cross another hurdle today to remain in the race - a payment of $125,000 to the party. The party requires candidates to pay a total entrance...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed... Statistics Canada set to release January jobs report today Statistics Canada is set to release its January job...

CALGARY - A security expert says those who remember how tight the security was when world leaders gathered in the Alberta backcountry two decades ago better buckle up this June when U.S. President Don...

The main Ontario party leaders have now laid out their plans on how to get primary care to millions of people without a family doctor. NDP Leader Marit Stiles promised to connect every Ontarian to a f...

VICTORIA - The mining industry is applauding the British Columbia government's decision to fast-track permits for several projects amid the ongoing U.S. tariff threat, but research suggests economic f...

MONTREAL - U.S. officials say a Colombian man who was living in Quebec has been extradited and arraigned in connection with the case of a pregnant Mexican woman who died while trying to cross a frigid...

VANCOUVER - Five women who were raped in their Vancouver homes in the early 1980s all believed it was the same perpetrator, a man named Ivan Henry who was sent to prison indefinitely in 1983. He was l...