Tag Archives: National

VANCOUVER - A man who spent 27 years in prison before he was found wrongfully convicted has been ordered by a British Columbia Supreme Court judge to pay $375,000 each to five women who sued him for s...

OTTAWA - Canada's federal public service grew by more than 100,000 people over the past 10 years, and both the Liberals and Conservatives are looking to trim it by not filling jobs when they are left ...

EDMONTON - Canadian investigators were effectively cracking down on fentanyl trafficking and production well before U.S. President Donald Trump threatened devastating tariffs if Canada didn't do more ...

Fentanyl has emerged as the primary cause of illicit drug deaths in Canada and the United States, and its trafficking has been cited by U.S. President Donald Trump to justify his threat of steep tarif...

MONTREAL - The federal government and the Canadian dairy industry are vowing to protect the country's supply management system in the face of threats from the United States. But some observers, and ev...

SACRAMENTO - California homebuilders say they will have few options but to keep buying Canadian lumber even if it's hit with 25 per cent tariffs as they rebuild thousands of homes destroyed by devasta...

MONTREAL - A Quebec furniture manufacturer says the threat of U.S. tariffs on Canadian goods has forced it to lay off 115 people in the province. South Shore Furniture says it's laying off 97 people a...

MONTREAL - Quebec City officials are urging the public not to boo the preteen American hockey players who will be in town for a prestigious international peewee tournament that begins next week. Mayor...

REGINA - Four deaths on Carry the Kettle Nakoda Nation in southern Saskatchewan are being treated as homicides, RCMP said Wednesday. RCMP Inspector Ashley St. Germaine told a Regina news conference th...

OTTAWA - Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney says he would reach Canada's NATO defence spending target by the end of the decade - two years ahead of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's schedule. Carn...