TORONTO — Canada would never agree to allow Russia back into the G7 as long as Vladimir Putin is president, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday. In an interview with the Associated Press, Harper said Putin has the mindset of someone who believes the Cold War is still going on,Read More

OTTAWA — The long-simmering Senate expense scandal came to a rolling boil Thursday as revelations in a hard-hitting spending audit sent three of the upper chamber’s most prominent members spinning into damage control and another Conservative running from the Conservative government caucus. Sen. Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, a victims-rights champion who wasRead More

Ottawa , A Quebec man who admitted to travelling to Florida to have sex with someone he believed was an underage boy, was sentenced to just over 10 years in a U.S. prison on Thursday. A Miami judge also ordered that Rene Roberge of Sherbrooke, Que., be placed on probationRead More

TORONTO — Ontario has given final approval to an NDP private member’s bill that bans so-called conversion therapy for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender children. New Democrat Cheri DiNovo says therapists should not try to “fix” LGBTQ kids or subject them to what she calls unethical and abusive conversion therapy.Read More

OTTAWA – The country’s labour force received a boost of 58,900 net jobs last month thanks to a surge in private-sector work that more than offset April’s losses, Statistics Canada said Friday. Even with the increase, the national unemployment rate in May remained locked at 6.8 per cent for theRead More

KIEV: Ukraine’s president told his military on Thursday to prepare for a possible “full-scale invasion” by Russia all along their joint border, a day after the worst fighting with Russian-backed separatists in months. His address in parliament was one of the first times Petro Poroshenko has used the word “invasion”Read More

SEOUL: South Korea today reported its third death from an outbreak of the MERS virus that has infected dozens of people, seen hundreds of schools closed and caused thousands to cancel travel plans. An 82-year-old man was diagnosed with the MERS virus in a posthumous test after he died inRead More

WASHINGTON: Former Texas Governor Rick Perry announced he will run for the White House today, throwing his hat into a very crowded Republican presidential field following his failed run in 2012. The conservative ex-governor kicked off his campaign with a sleek campaign website featuring a high-tempo video promising to “doRead More

BAGHDAD: Iraqi security forces used anti-tank missiles to repel suicide bombers driving explosives-rigged vehicles who attacked two military bases west of Baghdad, an army officer said today. The day before, an air strike in northern Iraq destroyed one of the Islamic State group’s largest car bomb factories, which may helpRead More

Jammu, June 4:  One person was killed and about a dozen injured, including three policemen, when the police opened fire on Sikh protesters who were staging demonstration against the removal of the posters carrying pictures of Sant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale. The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee observes June 6 as GhallugharaRead More