BLAIRMORE, Alta. — A frantic search continued early Tuesday for a missing two-year-old girl after her 27-year-old father was found dead of a suspected homicide inside a home in southwestern Alberta. RCMP issued an Amber Alert on Monday across Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Montana for little Hailey Dunbar-Blanchette beforeRead More

OTTAWA — Hard new numbers about the past performance of Canada’s economy gave way to crystal ball-gazing Monday on the campaign trail as the major party leaders all took a shot at forecasting the future. For Stephen Harper, weeks of buffeting bad news was washed away by a report tallyingRead More

TORONTO — Justin Trudeau is accusing Conservative Leader Stephen Harper of balancing the budget on the backs of a cross-section of vulnerable Canadians after figures released Monday show the federal government registered a surprise surplus in the last fiscal year. Finance Department numbers for 2014-15 show Ottawa posted a $1.9-billionRead More

VANCOUVER — NDP Leader Tom Mulcair says his party has earmarked half a billion dollars over the next four years to build clinics and hire more health care professionals. The NDP’s proposal involves investing $300 million to build 200 additional clinics and spending $200 million to create recruitment grants forRead More

TORONTO — Ontario’s Liberal government is delaying the sale of its largest electricity transmission utility because it will hurt federal Liberals campaigning for the Oct. 19 election, the provincial NDP charged Monday. The Progressive Conservatives and New Democrats oppose the sale of Hydro One, and both warned the government thatRead More

Toronto : The Toronto Police Service will outfit some officers with a new non-lethal weapon that fires a projectile known as a “sock round” and will provide more front-line cops with Tasers as part of its response to two exhaustive reports into how police deal with people in crisis. According toRead More

OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau will get some help from a second former prime minister when Jean Chretien takes part in a Liberal campaign event today. Chretien will join Trudeau for a rally this afternoon in Hamilton, where seats in the area went either New Democrat or Conservative in 2011. PaulRead More

OTTAWA — New Democrats are slamming Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau for suggesting the preferential tax rate for small business is being abused by millionaires to dodge taxes — even as they admit there’s a problem and are proposing a similar solution. The difference between the two parties lies in howRead More

A new poll shows Canada’s three major parties locked in a statistical dead heat more than halfway through the federal election campaign. The poll, released by Nanos Research Saturday, shows the Liberal party leading, with 31 per cent support nationally. The Conservatives trail closely with 30.9 per cent support, followedRead More

OTTAWA — Canada will be supplying additional humanitarian assistance for victims of the conflict in Syria. International Development Minister Christian Paradis on Saturday announced that the federal government will match “eligible” Canadian donations up to $100 million under the Syrian Emergency Relief Fund. That’s in addition to $503.5 million inRead More