CALGARY — Federal Labour Minister Patty Hajdu says it’s possible to forge a strong relationship with the new U.S. government while standing up for values that may be at odds with those of the Trump administration. The abrupt turnaround in Canada-U.S. relations is dominating discussions as Prime Minister Justin TrudeauRead More

OTTAWA — The Federal Court has dismissed a challenge by a Quebec law professor to condemn the federal government’s $15-billion sale of light armoured vehicles to Saudi Arabia. University of Montreal law professor Daniel Turp, a former Bloc Quebecois MP, challenged export permits authorizing the deal, saying Saudi Arabia’s poorRead More

KINGSTON, Ont. — A 49-year-old man is facing charges after allegedly waving a sword and threatening to behead a woman who offered him coffee. Police in Kingston, Ont. say the weekend encounter took place at a local home. The victim allegedly asked the man if he wanted any coffee orRead More

TORONTO – Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. says the high price of housing in the Greater Toronto Area is having a widening effect on other Ontario real estate markets. CMHC says it appears that people have gone further afield to buy a single-family home such as a detached or semi-detachedRead More

CALGARY — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his federal Liberal government will confront the reality of Donald Trump in the White House as his cabinet members gathered Sunday for a three-day retreat that is to include discussions with an adviser to the new president. Up to now, Trudeau has hadRead More

Ontario:  Ontario’s Liberal premier has written an open letter to newly announced candidate for Conservative leadership Kevin O’Leary criticizing his proposed policies and comments he made about Ontario’s auto sector. Kathleen Wynne wrote that she thinks O’Leary believes the government’s role should be to serve “society’s most well-off,” based onRead More

LA LOCHE, Sask. – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is marking the anniversary of the deadly school shooting in La Loche, Sask., saying the tiny community has inspired the whole country. Sunday marks the one-year anniversary of the shooting that killed two staff and wounded seven others in the high school.Read More

OTTAWA — Veteran Ontario New Democrat MP Charlie Angus says he has moved into the second phase of his possible campaign to lead his party. Angus, who launched a new website Sunday, says he is trying to build a national team of volunteers and collect donations after spending weeks reachingRead More

SEATTLE — The U.S. Justice Department says a 37-year-old citizen of both Canada and France has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiracy to distribute cocaine. The department says in a news release that border agents began investigating Martin Briand in 2009 and discovered he had made 30Read More

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of Canadian women, many wearing pink knit hats or carrying signs emblazoned with the maple leaf and the slogan “sisters of the north”, filled the sidewalks of Washington, D.C. Saturday as they made their way to a massive rally for women’s rights. Residents came out onto theirRead More