OTTAWA — It was a year ago today that Canadians headed to the polls in a federal election that elevated the third-place Liberals and Justin Trudeau into power with a comfortable 15-seat majority in the House of Commons. The political honeymoon for the Liberals appears little diminished a year later,Read More

CALGARY – A state funeral that will be open to the public will be held next week in Calgary for former Alberta premier Jim Prentice, who was killed in a plane crash last week in British Columbia. A statement from the premier’s office says the service will be held Friday,Read More

Florida: The trial of a man accused in the murder of a prominent Canadian legal scholar in Florida has been postponed after his co-accused pleaded guilty and told investigators the killing was a murder-for-hire rooted in a bitter child custody dispute. Sigfredo Garcia was set to stand trial in NovemberRead More

TORONTO – Two provincial byelections have been called for Nov. 17 to fill vacant seats in the Ottawa-Vanier and Niagara-West Glanbrook ridings. Word of the byelections first came from former provincial ombudsman Andre Marin, the Progressive Conservative candidate in Ottawa-Vanier, who posted the date in a tweet — then quicklyRead More

TORONTO — Auto insurance rates are rising in Ontario, moving the Liberal government even further away from a self-imposed target of an average 15-per-cent reduction. The Liberals promised in 2013 to cut auto insurance premiums an average of 15 per cent by August 2015, but after that deadline came andRead More

TORONTO — SNC-Lavalin has been fined $75,000 for operating a gas-fired electrical generating plant at Toronto Pearson International Airport for the past 10 years without a licence. The Ontario Energy Board says it inspected SNC-Lavalin’s operations and maintenance facilities at the Toronto airport “after it became known” the company wasRead More

LUXEMBOURG — The European Union’s foreign trade chief acknowledged that member states will likely be unable to back a landmark trade deal with Canada as scheduled on Tuesday but she was optimistic the deal could still be signed next week. EU Foreign Trade Commissioner Margot Malmstroem said objections from aRead More

TORONTO — Ottawa knows health costs are ballooning, yet it is trying to sell provinces and territories on $60 billion less over the next decade, Quebec Health Minister Gaetan Barrette said Tuesday as he and his counterparts began tense talks with the federal minister. “It says to Canadians ‘We willRead More

TORONTO — Ontario’s energy minister admits the bulk of nearly $12 million spent on the government’s plan to offer financial help to low-income electricity customers went to consultants and advertising. The Progressive Conservatives accuse the Liberals of badly mismanaging the Ontario Electricity Support Program because $11.7 million of the $11.9Read More

OTTAWA – The University of Ottawa is condemning an event earlier this month during which it says some students were “encouraged to behave disgracefully.” The statement from the university comes after its French-language student newspaper published a report on a pub crawl where students were allegedly encouraged to perform certainRead More