Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will push his provincial and territorial counterparts to eliminate trade barriers between Canada’s provinces and territories at the upcoming summit with premiers and Indigenous leaders in Montreal, the Prime Minister’s Office announced Tuesday. The First Ministers’ Meeting (FMM) will take place in Montreal…...إقرأالمزيد

For the last four weeks, intermittent postal strikes have hit different regions of Canada resulting in a massive backlog of undelivered packages and envelopes. This comes at the busiest time of year for retailers and, even if the government legislates an end to the strike action, they have and will still suffer as will the reputation of Canada…...إقرأالمزيد

It’s just a tiny bit of low-quality bronze, almost worthless, but what it represents makes it almost priceless. It is the Victoria Cross, the Commonwealth’s highest honour for valour in battle and probably the most widely known and respected medal for bravery in the world. Because of its stature, it has been awarded only in those cases…...إقرأالمزيد

Romaine lettuce is off limits again in the heavily populated provinces of Ontario and Quebec where 18 cases of E. coli infection have been reported. Three have been confirmed in Ontario and 15 in Quebec. The Public Health Agency of Canada is working with health officials in the United States to find the source of the infections that have…...إقرأالمزيد

Bernard Landry was buried from Notre Dame Basilica in a state funeral today in Montreal. He was the Parti Quebecois premier of the French-speaking province of Quebec from March 2001, when the charismatic Lucien Bouchard resigned, until the party lost to the provincial Liberals at the polls in the 2003. Landry, 81, had been a lawyer by profession,…...إقرأالمزيد

Douglas Rain, who voiced the unforgettable presence of HAL, in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 epic science fiction film, has died at the age of 90. Rain, an actor and narrator, who grew up in Winnipeg, Manitoba, was a founding member of Stratford, Ontario’s Stratford Festival in 1953. He remained…...إقرأالمزيد

People in Canada and the western world tend to think babies should sleep through the night by the time they are six months to 12 months old. But a study out of McGill University found that many do not and that appears to have no effect on their development. Sleep training sometimes sought Some parents become so worried that their infants are not sleeping…...إقرأالمزيد

Olympic fever is underway in Calgary, Alberta today but it’s just the first step, in a vote to decide whether to go ahead with a bid for the 2026 Winter Olympics and Paralympic Games. Many people in Calgary have a good idea of what’s involved in hosting the event as they remember the 1988 Winter Olympics. The vote is not a binding…...إقرأالمزيد

Book: Power, Prime Ministers< and the Press: The Battle for Truth on Parliament Hill Robert Lewis, details how the press coverage of politics has evolved along with some of the most influential political journalists in Canadian history. (Dundurn Press) In the beginning was politics, shortly after came the press. In the early days in Canada, and…...إقرأالمزيد

A new audit by the conservation group Oceana Canada found only 34 per cent of Canada’s fish stocks are healthy and just over 13 per cent are critically depleted needing immediate action to rebuild them. The report goes on to say that of 26 critically depleted stocks only three have a rebuilding plan in place and all three do not conform…...إقرأالمزيد