Ottawa — Canadian warplanes have bombed their first targets in Syria, Defence Minister Jason Kenney announced online late Wednesday. The milestone event came out via the minister’s Twitter account and even seemed to get out ahead of the military, which had not posted news of the strike on its websiteRead More

Vancouver, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a change to the Canada Student Grants program Tuesday, which will expand the number of training programs eligible for government help. Until now, post-secondary training programs had to be longer than 60 weeks to qualify for the grant program, which was started in 2009,Read More

Vancouver – Prime Minister Stephen Harper says he won’t be called to testify at the Mike Duffy trial. The trial got underway today with the suspended senator formally pleading not guilty and the Crown delivering its opening statement. The prime minister says he didn’t know that his former chief ofRead More

Toronto , Mayor John Tory says it is time to move on from “clickers and clipboards” as a way to measure traffic flow and to begin investing in “the power of big data” instead. Tory made the comment at Ryerson University’s Digital Media Zone on Tuesday morning as he announcedRead More

Ottawa ,The trial of Mike Duffy got underway Tuesday with a series of ugly portraits: the senator himself, the prime minister’s former right-hand man and the much-maligned upper chamber as a whole. The Crown drew a picture of an allegedly corrupt senator who made personal trips on the public dime,Read More

Toronto, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne, who is openly gay, is urging businesses upset by a so-called religious objections law in Indiana to set up shop in her province. The Indiana law, which takes effect July 1, does not specifically mention gays and lesbians, but critics say it is designed toRead More

OTTAWA — When lawyers arrive at the Ottawa courthouse Tuesday for the long-awaited start of the Mike Duffy trial, they’ll be armed with the equivalent of advanced degrees in the rules governing Senate expenses. Both sides will be armed with heavy binders packed with reams of notes on the guidelinesRead More

OTTAWA — Canada’s official languages commissioner says Ottawa has the obligation to communicate in French and English even in emergency situations such as the shooting on Parliament Hill last year. That’s the conclusion of a preliminary report obtained by The Canadian Press. The investigation focused on the reaction of theRead More

HALIFAX — An airport official says the wreckage of an Air Canada plane that crashed in Halifax on Sunday has been removed from the runway. Spokeswoman Ashley Gallant says the battered wreck of Flight 624 was taken off the tarmac at Halifax Stanfield International Airport sometime overnight. Gallant says thatRead More

TORONTO — Zsofi Balasz hadn’t even received her Canadian passport when she competed for her new country in the Pan Am Games in Rio de Janeiro. The open-water swimmer became a Canadian citizen just in time for the 2007 Games, having emigrated from Hungary with her parents and two siblingsRead More