OTTAWA — Canada’s 600,000 Metis and non-status Indians are indeed “Indians” under the Constitution, the Supreme Court of Canada declared Thursday in a long-awaited landmark decision more than 15 years in the making. “It is the federal government to whom they can turn,” the unanimous 9-0 ruling said. The highRead More

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will hear an appeal over the voting rights of Canadians who live outside the country for more than five years. The case involves Canadian citizens who were denied ballots in the 2011 federal election on the grounds of their foreign residence. The suitRead More

OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will deliver a ruling today that will affect the relationship between the federal government and 600,000 Metis and off-reserve Indians across the country. The court will rule on whether the federal government has the same responsibility to them as to status Indians andRead More

TORONTO — The International Monetary Fund is lowering its economic growth projections for Canada and the world. Slowing growth in global oil exports, low crude prices and weak demand for non-oil commodities were identified as factors. The IMF is now projecting Canada’s economy to grow by 1.5 per cent thisRead More

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. — Former Conservative MP Dean Del Mastro is out of jail on bail and his lawyer says the Ontario Court of Appeal will hear his case again. Del Mastro went to jail last week after losing his original appeal of a conviction in the fall of 2014, whenRead More

TORONTO — Loblaw is planning to build dozens of new stores and renovate more than 100 others this year, creating thousands of retail and construction jobs. Loblaw (TSX:L) says that overall, it will erect about 50 new stores and renovate 150 existing ones, including projects that started in January. TheRead More

A 52-year-old woman who was found dead inside her Richmond Hill home along with her 22-year-old son last week was trying to stop the young man from harming himself, their family says. Karen and Jeffrey Costa were both found dead with obvious signs of trauma at a home in theRead More

EDMONTON – New Democrat MPs will return to the House of Commons today after an emotional and divisive weekend that ended up costing Tom Mulcair his job as leader. Not only does the federal party now have to contend with a potentially divisive leadership race within the next 24 months,Read More

TORONTO — The leaders of Ontario’s main political parties are to meet this afternoon to discuss political fundraising reforms. The meeting follows two weeks of opposition attacks over expensive and exclusive dinners for Liberal donors. Last week, the opposition attacked the Liberals over fundraising goals for cabinet ministers. Premier KathleenRead More

  EDMONTON — Rank-and-file New Democrats handed Tom Mulcair another ballot-box drubbing Sunday, voting to replace him as leader less than six months after a devastating election loss that dashed the party’s dream of forming Canada’s first federal NDP government. A stunned silence fell over the convention floor at Edmonton’sRead More