Edmonton, Alberta’s incoming premier is already getting down to work as he prepares to take over the scandal plagued Progressive Conservative government. Jim Prentice announced his transition team yesterday, headed by Tim Hearn, the former chairman and CEO of Imperial Oil. And this morning the Premier-Designate is scheduled to meet withRead More

Ottawa, Statistics Canada says municipalities issued building permits worth $9.2 billion dollars in July, up 11.8 per cent from June. The federal agency says it was the fourth month in a row that the value of building permits increased. Economists had expected a drop of 6.8 per cent, according to ThomsonRead More

Toronto, A new study out of the Fraser Institute contends that financial bonuses and other incentives for teachers should be based on student achievement if Canadians want to remain competitive on the world stage. The report from the conservative-leaning, non-partisan think-tank makes the argument that just as other professionals receive performance-basedRead More

Brampton, A man is dead after a shooting Brampton Sunday. Police were called to an apartment building at 85 Charolais Blvd. in the Steeles Avenue West and Main Street South area Sunday evening. When they arrived they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound.  Man in life-threatening condition after daylightRead More

Montreal, Jury selection begins today in the first-degree murder trial of Luka Rocco Magnotta. Magnotta faces five charges in connection with the May 2012 slaying and dismemberment of Jun Lin, a 33-year-old Chinese engineering student. It is believed that choosing the bilingual jurors who will hear the evidence will last asRead More

Toronto, Toronto police are investigating arson as the suspected cause in a number of overnight car fires. A total of seven vehicles went up in flames overnight – five in the area of Church Street and The Esplanade and two in Yorkville, police said. Reports from the scene say theRead More

China,US National Security Adviser Susan Rice has met Chinese officials for talks that were expected to focus on building consensus ahead of US President Barack Obama’s visit to China in November. CHINESE state media said Rice’s visit fell at “a particularly critical time when it is of great urgency forRead More

The Obama administration is reportedly preparing a campaign to destroy the Islamic State militant group that could outlast the president’s remaining time in office, according to a published report. The New York Times, citing U.S. officials, reported late Sunday that the White House plan involves three phases that some PentagonRead More

A suicide bomber killed at least 12 people and wounded 27 others on Monday by ramming a vehicle packed with explosives into a convoy of African Union troops in Somalia, the local governor said. The attack, the latest in a string of killings, comes exactly one week after a USRead More

Washington : Amid a country-wide alert in India over an al-Qaeda threat, a top US counter-terrorism expert has said there is no evidence of the terror outfit’s presence in the country. “The idea that Ayman al-Zawahiri is going to open a branch of al-Qaeda in India is just crazy. Yes,Read More