COVID-19 is a pandemic: World Health Organization
GENEVA -- Expressing alarm both about mounting infections and inadequate government responses, the World Health Organization declared Wednesday that the global coronavirus crisis is...
Canada releases coronavirus guidelines on when to cancel major events
The Public Health Agency of Canada has posted guidelines aimed at helping event planners figure out whether to cancel mass gatherings of people as...
2020 federal budget to be tabled March 30
OTTAWA -- The 2020 federal budget— the first of the Liberal minority government—will be tabled on March 30, Finance Minister Bill Morneau announced in...
Groundhogs got it wrong: spring isn’t coming soon, Weather Network says
Two out of three groundhogs got it wrong -- at least according to the Weather Network’s spring forecast. While Nova Scotia’s Shubenacadie Sam emerged...
Trudeau misses deadline for disclosing private interests to ethics commissioner
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has run afoul of federal ethics rules yet again -- this time missing the deadline for filing a...
Trudeau secures Senegal’s vote for UN security council seat during Dakar...
DAKAR, SENEGAL -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called on the world to do more to spread freedom Wednesday, as he visited a museum in...
Pipeline protesters block Freeland from Halifax meeting, tell her to...
TORONTO -- Pipeline protesters linked arms to physically block Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland from entering a meeting at Halifax City Hall.Freeland planned to...
Two more Canadians diagnosed with COVID-19 on cruise ship
TORONTO -- Another two Canadians are among 39 passengers who tested positive for the new coronavirus, now called COVID-19, on a quarantined cruise ship...
9 Metro Vancouver cab companies file legal challenges to halt...
The battle over ride hailing is heating up in Metro Vancouver as a group of local cab companies is taking Uber, Lyft and Passenger...
Peter MacKay running for Conservative leadership
OTTAWA -- Prominent Conservative Peter MacKay is running for Conservative party leadership.MacKay made the announcement on Twitter Wednesday afternoon.
“I’m in. Stay tuned,” MacKay said...
New laws and rules coming into effect in 2020
By: Sonja Puzic
TORONTO -- As we usher in another decade, a number of new laws and rules will come into effect in 2020 that...
Canada back in world’s top 10 economies, with room to...
Canada once again has one of the world’s 10 largest economies, according to a new report that forecasts continued economic growth powered in part...
Can Trudeau count on stable Liberal minority? Not necessarily, warns...
OTTAWA -- Accidents happen.
That’s something Bob Rae advises all federal political parties to keep in mind as they enter a new era of minority...
Meet some of Canada’s first babies of the new year
Some of Canada’s newest parents rang in the new year by welcoming the first babies born in 2020 moments after the stroke of midnight.
In...
Gun control advocates urging Quebec to tighten rules as mosque shooting...
MONTREAL -- As the third anniversary of the Quebec City mosque shooting approaches, gun control advocates are urging the province to tighten rules around...
Taxes and fees set to change in the new year
SURREY -- As British Columbians anticipate the arrival of a new year, they can also look forward to new tax hikes and some tax...
Trudeau’s top communications staffer leaving PMO
OTTAWA -- OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s most senior communications staffer Kate Purchase is leaving the Prime Minister’s Office. Purchase, who was Trudeau’s...
‘Justice system did its work’: Current, former AGs react to SNC-Lavalin...
OTTAWA -- Federal Attorney General and Justice Minister David Lametti says the agreement between the Public Prosecution Service of Canada and SNC-Lavalin’s legal counsel...
Canada looking at military engineers, on-the-ground training for peacekeeping
OTTAWA -- Canada is exploring the possible deployment of military engineers as the newly re-elected Liberal government takes a fresh look at ways to...
No apology from PM Trudeau after U.S. President Trump calls him...
OTTAWA -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau did not apologize after U.S. President Donald Trump called him “two-faced” in the wake of a video of...




















