SEATTLE — A Canadian man has been sentenced to six years in U.S. federal prison for travelling to Washington state to have sex with a teenage girl. The King County Sheriff’s Office says Tyler Beavis was arrested in December after school officials discovered he was chatting with a 14-year-old femaleRead More

OTTAWA — The new Liberal government is making good on a promise to resurrect the mandatory, long-form census which was killed by the Conservatives, but is vague on the details of how people will be persuaded to fill it out. The 2011 mandatory, long questionnaire was axed by Stephen Harper’sRead More

OTTAWA — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has unshackled his top diplomats. Trudeau sent a letter Wednesday to the ambassadors and high commissioners of Canada’s foreign missions telling them he and his cabinet will be relying on their judgment and insight to advance Canada’s foreign policy goals. The letter, a copyRead More

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he wanted to read the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal before passing judgment on it — and now he’ll have his chance. The text of the agreement finalized Oct. 5 between a dozen Pacific Rim countries has been posted on the website of the New ZealandRead More

Councillor Rob Ford has been admitted to Mount Sinai Hospital to begin chemotherapy after doctors discovered a tumour on his bladder. According to his office, it is still not clear if the tumour is impacting his organs. Ford’s Chief of Staff Dan Jacobs said in an email to CP24.com thatRead More

Mississauga- Malton MP Navdeep Bains has been named Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development as newly-elected Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and his new cabinet were sworn into office today at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. Having served as the MP for Mississauga-Brampton South from 2004 to 2011, Bains, 38, aRead More

OTTAWA – Rookie Toronto MP Bill Morneau has been named Canada’s new finance minister by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Morneau, a former executive and past chairman of the C.D. Howe Institute, is just one of several newcomers to the House of Commons among those comprising Trudeau’s 30-member cabinet. Veteran MPRead More

OTTAWA — New Democrat MPs will meet face to face in Ottawa on Wednesday for the first time since the party went from the orange crush to the orange crushed. Tom Mulcair, who has remained out of the public eye since the election, will meet his caucus on Parliament HillRead More

TORONTO – Ontario’s auditor general will examine millions of dollars in government payouts to teachers’ unions to cover negotiating costs. The Liberals supported a Progressive Conservative committee motion that requested the auditor general review the payments and report on where the money came from and what it was intended toRead More

Toronto, November 3 Sikh MP Navdeep Bains may get a berth in Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cabinet, a media report said. According to a report published in The Star newspaper on Monday, the prime minister has already chosen ministers for his cabinet and Bains, a Liberal MP from MississaugaRead More