KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian leaders asked Prime Minister Stephen Harper on Saturday to allow more of their people to come to Canada, and to push the West to arm their military to fight their Russian aggressors. Harper left Kyiv Saturday promising to make the plight of Ukraine in its fightRead More

Mississauga– A new express train to Pearson International Airport made its maiden voyage at the crack of dawn on Saturday. The Union Pearson Express was filled with eager riders who were given free tickets through a Metrolinx contest as it pulled out of Union Station at around 5:30 a.m. forRead More

MONTREAL — Hundreds of people are lining up to pay their respects to former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau. Parizeau’s body is lying in state at the building housing the Caisse de depots et placement du Quebec, the provincial pension fund manager that Parizeau helped create in the 1960s. Several provincialRead More

TORONTO — Canada would never agree to allow Russia back into the G7 as long as Vladimir Putin is president, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said Thursday. In an interview with the Associated Press, Harper said Putin has the mindset of someone who believes the Cold War is still going on,Read More

OTTAWA — The long-simmering Senate expense scandal came to a rolling boil Thursday as revelations in a hard-hitting spending audit sent three of the upper chamber’s most prominent members spinning into damage control and another Conservative running from the Conservative government caucus. Sen. Pierre-Hugues Boisvenu, a victims-rights champion who wasRead More

Ottawa , A Quebec man who admitted to travelling to Florida to have sex with someone he believed was an underage boy, was sentenced to just over 10 years in a U.S. prison on Thursday. A Miami judge also ordered that Rene Roberge of Sherbrooke, Que., be placed on probationRead More

TORONTO — Ontario has given final approval to an NDP private member’s bill that bans so-called conversion therapy for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender children. New Democrat Cheri DiNovo says therapists should not try to “fix” LGBTQ kids or subject them to what she calls unethical and abusive conversion therapy.Read More

OTTAWA – The country’s labour force received a boost of 58,900 net jobs last month thanks to a surge in private-sector work that more than offset April’s losses, Statistics Canada said Friday. Even with the increase, the national unemployment rate in May remained locked at 6.8 per cent for theRead More

TORONTO — The federal government is giving more money to Canada’s spy agency. The plan calls for $137 million over five years for the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service and $41 million a year afterward. Prime Minister Stephen Harper says it’s all part of an attempt to beef up publicRead More

TORONTO — Ontario plans to move its fixed elections from October to June and could even hold them on Saturdays to increase voter turnout, but Premier Kathleen Wynne isn’t ready to try online voting just yet. “I am not opposed personally to using technology in the election process, not inRead More