Tariff strife largely overlooked in runup to Tuesday’s U.S. midterms

CLEVELAND — As Donald Trump resumes the role of barnstormer-in-chief before Tuesday’s critical midterm elections, America’s ongoing tariff feud with friends and foes alike seems all...

Calgary 2026 Olympic Games bid survives city council vote on plebiscite

CALGARY — A potential Calgary bid for the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Games survived a city council vote Wednesday, when a motion leading to the cancellation...

Woman plans to die on Thursday, saying Ottawa is forcing early death on her

HALIFAX — Audrey Parker has decided to end her life on Thursday. She has approached it as a political act — an important public statement about...

Canada Post trucks backed up as strikes move throughout Quebec, Ottawa

OTTAWA — Canada Post is facing a days-long backlog of parcel deliveries as scattered walkouts by postal workers escalate across the country, the Crown corporation warned...

Canada Border Services Agency asked to speed up refugee removals

‘A blooming shame:’ Greyhound winds down in Western Canada, northern Ontario

Retired bus driver Iain Gray ambled through Calgary’s cavernous Greyhound depot on its last day in operation, a gold pin with the bus company’s logo on...

Federal Liberals aim to add personal leave days as Ontario cuts them back

OTTAWA — The Trudeau government plans to give about 900,000 Canadian workers more paid personal-leave days, in a proposal that seems designed to goad the Ontario...

Quebec schools develop algorithm to detect students at risk of dropping out

MONTREAL — Eric Racine, head of a school board east of Montreal, says it’s rarely obvious to educators which students will give up on school. So...

Government to review funding for former governors general, Trudeau says

OTTAWA — Canada’s governors general deserve continued financial support once they retire but they need to be more transparent and accountable for their expenses, Justin Trudeau...

B.C. implements most recommendations made after Health Ministry firings: report

VICTORIA — Goodwill payments of more than $1 million and a university scholarship in the name of a student who died by suicide are among key...