MONTREAL – The Liberal government’s plan to move ahead on marijuana legalization is up in smoke, NDP leadership candidates suggested during Sunday’s leadership debate in Montreal while they also addressed a range of issues affecting youth including student debt and precarious work. B.C. MP Peter Julian, one of four contendersRead More

TORONTO – Canadian marijuana stocks got a boost Monday following reports that the federal government will introduce a bill next month that aims to legalize pot by July 1, 2018. Shares of Canopy Growth Corp. (TSX:WEED) were up 10.12 per cent, or $1.00, to $10.88 per share in late morningRead More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is not ruling out sending troops to a peacekeeping mission this year, even though Canada has not yet told the United Nations what it is up to. “We have a difficult history in Africa as peacekeepers and we need to make sure that whenRead More

Ontario :- Premier Kathleen Wynne’s approval rating has hit an all-time low, dropping to 12 per cent in a recent Angus Reid Institute poll. The poll found that 81 per cent of respondents disapprove of the job that Wynne is doing as premier while just 12 per cent approve ofRead More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says a “process is now properly underway” to look into a Liberal MP’s allegedly sexist comment to a Conservative MP. The Conservatives have been pressuring Trudeau to take action against Liberal MP Nicola Di Iorio, who is accused of making a stripper-related joke aboutRead More

Police have raided a Riverside marijuana dispensary for the third time this month and the second time this week. Around 4 p.m., Police say they executed a search warrant at the Cannabis Culture dispensary at Queen Street East and Broadview Avenue on Thursday. A total of 1,640 grams of marijuana,Read More

Ottawa: Lawmakers in Canada’s House of Commons, with strong encouragement from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government, passed a motion paving the way for future measures to combat Islamophobia. The motion, which passed easily on Thursday, asks the government to “recognize the need to quell the increasing public climate of hateRead More

Ontario:- Premier Kathleen Wynne’s approval rating has hit an all-time low, dropping to 12 per cent in a recent Angus Reid Institute survey. The survey found that 81 per cent of respondents disapproved of the job that Wynne is doing as premier while just 12 per cent approve of it.Read More

CALGARY – TransCanada says it has received a presidential permit from the U.S. State Department that allows it to build the long-delayed Keystone XL pipeline. Former president Barack Obama rejected the previous Keystone proposal saying it wasn’t in the U.S. national interest. The new administration has said repeatedly that PresidentRead More

OTTAWA — The annual pace of inflation in Canada ticked lower last month as higher prices for gasoline were offset in part by lower costs for fresh fruit and vegetables. Statistics Canada said Friday the consumer price index rose 2.0 per cent on a year-over-year basis in February, down fromRead More