OTTAWA — Though you’d never know it from the campaign venues, one of the Conservative party’s main goals in recent weeks has been not to overheat. In an 11-week-campaign, the party contends, you can’t have anyone burning out. Not your the leader, not the staff, not the supporters. So duringRead More

COQUITLAM, B.C. – A memorial service is planned in Vancouver today for two little Syrian boys who drowned in Turkey in a tragedy that has attracted worldwide attention. A picture of the body of three-year-old Alan Kurdi on a Turkish beach received prominent worldwide attention and has sparked debate aboutRead More

TORONTO:A number of popular Smirnoff Ice brand alcoholic beverages are being pulled from shelves over concerns that they could contain glass fragments. Diageo Canada, the company that makes the drinks, voluntarily recalled the beverages Sept. 4 over the concern, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency said in a statement about theRead More

BROSSARD, Que. — NDP Leader Tom Mulcair is highlighting his party’s pacifist roots, saying there is no military role for the Canadian Forces in the conflict in Syria and Iraq. Mulcair made the comments today at a seniors’ residence on Montreal’s south shore. He said the current conflict in SyriaRead More

TORONTO – Ontario is asking the federal government to pledge to bring 5,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by the end of the year. Minister of Health and Long-Term Care Eric Hoskins also says the provincial government will give $300,000 to Lifeline Syria, an organization that is trying to bring 1,000Read More

MONTREAL — Green party Leader Elizabeth May says Stephen Harper’s response to the humanitarian crisis in Syria has been weak and that the rules that are in place make it almost impossible to sponsor a refugee. May made her comments Friday at a news conference following a meeting with MontrealRead More

Ontario:As the province scrambles to try to reach tentative agreements with teachers’ unions that remain without contracts, education workers are now threatening province-wide job action starting Sept. 10. In a news release issued Friday, the Canadian Union of Public Employees said they notified the province yesterday that education workers, whichRead More

OTTAWA — An NDP government would convene a first ministers’ meeting within six months of taking office to come up with a plan and a timetable for expanding the Canada and Quebec pension plans, Tom Mulcair announced Thursday. “Whether you are just entering the workforce or nearing your retirement, anRead More

Ontario -The Ontario NDP has written to provincial chief electoral officer Greg Essensa, asking him to investigate an ad by Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown’s byelection campaign that they say may violate political advertising rules. A half-page advertisement from the Brown campaign appeared on page A2 of Wednesday’s edition ofRead More

BROSSARD, Que. — Justin Trudeau won’t say if Bill C-51 — the controversial anti-terror bill introduced by the Conservatives — is constitutional, even though the Liberals backed it in Parliament. At a morning campaign event Thursday, he said his party will always defend the Charter of Rights, enacted when hisRead More