OTTAWA — Immigration Minister John McCallum says 98 per cent of government-sponsored Syrian refugees have now found permanent housing. The minister is telling a Commons committee that the remaining two per cent should be housed by mid-June. He says the government plans to bring in 25,000 government-sponsored refugees from SyriaRead More

EDMONTON — The man who has been the face of the fire fight in Fort McMurray is taking some time off. Wood Buffalo fire Chief Darby Allen told reporters Thursday — 10 days after fire first spread into the northern Alberta city — that he is handing control to othersRead More

Toronto:Mayor John Tory is calling on city staff to use “whatever enforcement mechanisms” they can to crack down on the growing number of marijuana dispensaries that are “operating unlawfully” in Toronto. In an open letter sent to Municipal Licensing and Standards Executive Director Tracey Cook on Thursday, Tory said heRead More

OTTAWA — New measures to scrub self-serving and partisan government communications will take effect immediately, says Treasury Board President Scott Brison — but that doesn’t mean the Liberals will put the brakes on federal ad spending. The new “interim” safeguards include banning all government ads within three months of aRead More

TORONTO — An expected agreement that will see fired radio host Jian Ghomeshi apologize and sign a peace bond in exchange for the withdrawal of a sexual assault charge against him was instigated by his lawyer, a source familiar with the proceedings said Tuesday. The offer, expected to be formalizedRead More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he will visit Fort McMurray, Alta., on Friday to offer the support of all Canadians to the fire-ravaged community. Speaking in the House of Commons, the prime minister thanked those who battled the huge wildfire and saved much of the city. “I tooRead More

OTTAWA — Canada and the United States have set up a working group to help sort out errors of identity on no-fly lists. But Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says Canada needs “an entirely new database and information system” to completely solve the problem of people — including youngsters —Read More

OTTAWA — The mother of an Ontario boy who has put up with many unsettling airport delays says a Canada-U.S. plan to share no-fly lists must include “adequate and transparent safeguards” to ensure children won’t become entangled in an international security web. Khadija Cajee’s six-year-old son Adam had trouble boardingRead More

WASHINGTON — The federal government is preparing to introduce legislation that will establish rules for a new border-crossing experiment that could change the way travellers enter the U.S. It will spell out the rights and responsibilities of U.S. customs agents working on Canadian soil, under the preclearance project recently announcedRead More

EDMONTON — Wildfires that levelled neighbourhoods in Fort McMurray slowed their rampage through tinder dry forest in northern Alberta on Sunday, allowing firefighters in the oilpatch city to focus on hotspots as plans were made for Premier Rachel Notley to survey the damage first-hand. Notley said the fight against theRead More