Finance minister defends extra employment insurance help for parts of oil patch

OTTAWA—Finance Minister Bill Morneau defended the Liberal government’s decision to boost employment insurance benefits for parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan while leaving some hard hit areas...

Poe, Escudero resume campaign sortie in Manila

MANILA—Fired-up by positive results of the recent post-presidential debate Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey, independent presidential candidate Senator Grace Poe and her running mate, Francis ‘Chiz’...

Binay vows to fight poverty in Isabela

MANILA—United Nationalist Alliance (UNA) presidential bet Vice President Jejomar C. Binay went to his mother’s hometown in Cabagan, Isabela on Sunday and promised to fight poverty...

Half a million more senior citizens to get Php6,000 yearly pension—Recto

MANILA—Almost half a million more seniors will start getting a Php6,000 yearly pension from the government effective this year after Congress increased by Php3 billion the...

Eastern Visayas gets the largest share of 2016 BuB funds—DBM

MANILA—Eastern Visayas, the region hit by super typhoon “Yolanda” in 2013, gets the largest share of the total P24.7 billion Bottom-Up Budgeting funds (BuB) for 2016,...

Suspect arrested on fear of terrorism, RCMP say

TORONTO—The lawyer of a man arrested because police believe he might commit a terrorist act says he doesn’t know what prompted the investigation into his client....

Police say no ‘obvious signs’ of foul play in the discovery of missing boy

AUSTIN, Man.—Days of searching by hundreds of volunteers for a missing Manitoba toddler have ended with the tragic discovery of the boy’s body in a creek....

RCMP say body of Chase Martens, 2, has been found after days of searching

AUSTIN, Man.—RCMP in Manitoba say the body of a two-year-old boy who had been missing since vanishing from his rural home earlier this week has been...

Palace: Enough security measures are in place to thwart terror attacks in the country