Category Archives: National News

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Terrace, B.C., Thursday to announce the next batch of major projects the government is submitting for possible fast-track approval. A senior Ontario governmen...

OTTAWA - The Public Health Agency of Canada lost more than $20 million worth of pharmaceutical products from the national stockpile this year because of what it calls a "temperature deviation." The fi...

One of Don Hewitt's core memories from three years as the furry, minuscule mascot of the Saskatchewan Roughriders in the late 1970s can be summed up in two letters - P.U. "They'd wash the suit once at...

OTTAWA - New polling suggests Canadians had a lukewarm response to the federal budget released last week - leading one pollster to argue all parties should think twice before mounting an election camp...

EDMONTON - Lance Hackewich loves his Saskatchewan Roughriders -- and he's got a 75-year-old desiccated, positively inedible piece of history to prove it. It's a loaf of bread from 1951. It sits among ...

SAVONA, BRITISH COLUMBIA - Rail operator Canadian Pacific Kansas City says a rock slide may be partially to blame for a derailment near Kamloops, B.C., that resulted in the spill of more than 70,000 l...

CALGARY - Phil MacAulay has been a member of the Royal Canadian Legion for the past 50 years, and even he's surprised at the measures his local branch has taken to keep the 103-year-old building alive...

Statistics Canada says the economy added 67,000 jobs in October, blowing past economists' labour market expectations for a second month in a row. Those job gains were concentrated in part-time work wh...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada is set to release its jobs report for the month of October this morning. The consensus among economists polled by Reuters is that the labour market took a breather last mont...

OTTAWA - The minority Liberal government has survived the first of three confidence tests on its federal budget. Members of Parliament have voted to defeat a Conservative sub-amendment in the House of...