Canada recently announced a ban on single-use plastics. Items like straws, cotton swabs, drink stirrers and Styrofoam fast-food containers and cups will be banned by 2021....
OTTAWA — Conservative MP Mark Warawa’s family said his “new address is in heaven” on Thursday, announcing his death following a “brief but valiant battle” with...
OTTAWA — Elections Canada has scrapped plans to use social-media “influencers” to persuade young Canadians to register to vote in this fall’s federal election. Chief electoral...
MONTREAL — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau added his voice Thursday to the growing opposition to Quebec’s new law prohibiting teachers, police officers and other public servants...
OTTAWA — A site has been officially approved for the federal government’s promised national monument for the war in Afghanistan, five years after the memorial was...
New research suggests vaping among Canadian teens skyrocketed by 74 per cent in a single year, and that new brands of e-cigarettes are gaining a foothold...
MONTREAL — Quebec’s largest school board has voted to delay application of the province’s controversial new secularism law for at least a year to allow for...
OTTAWA — Carving fins off live sharks and tossing them in the ocean to drown will be illegal in Canada as early as Friday. Importing shark...
OTTAWA — Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says he would like to see Canada welcome more refugees than it currently accepts and believes more of them should...
EDMONTON — Premier Jason Kenney passed out earplugs in the legislature overnight as his government invoked a time limit on debate over a bill that strips...