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Canada
Canada finance minister Bill Morneau resigns amid charity scandal
Morneau said he would now run for the job of secretary general of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
18 Aug 2020 11:11 AM
Toronto Raptors’ Fred VanVleet skeptical about resumption of NBA season
The player questioned whether a return to action could be carried out safely, and said he doesn’t relish the idea of playing in empty arenas
23 Apr 2020 9:33 AM
Canada's worst mass shooting death toll rises to 23
Memorials cropped up all over the province of fewer than a million people, featuring Canadian flags and flowers
22 Apr 2020 11:46 AM
Canadian Grand Prix postponed due to Covid19 pandemic
Organisers said all tickets sold for the Formula One Canadian Grand Prix 2020 will continue to be valid
08 Apr 2020 3:53 PM
Air travel getting safer with one accident every 8,84,000 flights
The safety report says there were 53 airline accidents in 2019
07 Apr 2020 3:30 PM
Canada first country to pull out of Tokyo Games
IOC is of the opinion that the global crisis could have passed by the end of July and that postponing now would be premature
23 Mar 2020 12:06 PM
IOC member calls Tokyo Olympics plans 'insensitive, irresponsible'
She says this crisis is bigger than even the Olympics
18 Mar 2020 10:17 AM
Women's Ice Hockey Championship put off due to Covid19
It is the second time the women’s event has been cancelled due to a global epidemic
08 Mar 2020 12:27 PM
Global sport doping cases up 13% in 2017: WADA
The Montreal-based agency reported 1,804 Anti-Doping Rule Violations for 2017, a rise from 1,595 in 2016.
20 Dec 2019 12:43 PM
Bianca Andreescu wins Lou Marsh Trophy, becomes Canada athlete of year
Andreescu, an unknown quantity to most in Canada a year ago, was a unanimous pick after a breakout season.
10 Dec 2019 9:02 AM
7 dead in small plane crash in Canada
The government agency sent a team of investigators to gather evidence on the cause of the crash.
29 Nov 2019 9:26 AM
Toronto man arrested for throwing faeces on people
Samuel Opoku, 23, was arrested late Tuesday and faces 10 counts of mischief and assault with a weapon.
28 Nov 2019 10:38 AM
Canadian PM Trudeau includes 4 Indian-origin ministers in new cabinet
Another key portfolios reshuffle was Chrystia Freeland who has been moved from foreign affairs to become Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister.
21 Nov 2019 1:21 PM
'It's absurd': Canadian woman told her French not 'good enough' for Quebec residency
French is the official language of government, commerce and the courts in Quebec -- a former French colony ceded to Britain in 1763.
09 Nov 2019 11:16 AM
Indian-Canadian politician set to emerge as kingmaker as Trudeau poised to form minority govt
Jagmeet Singh, who was himself a prime ministerial contender, said he wants the NDP to play a 'constructive' role in the new Parliament.
23 Oct 2019 8:52 AM
Trudeau's Liberals to form minority government after winning Canada vote
Around 27.4 million people are eligible to vote at one of the approximately 20,000 polling places across the country.
22 Oct 2019 10:25 AM
Liberals, Tories slug it out on last day of Canada election
The People's Party has situated itself to the right of the Conservatives and could draw votes away from the Tories.
21 Oct 2019 10:02 AM
‘Fighting for every single vote,’ says Canada's Trudeau as he concedes rival could win
Trudeau has spent much of campaign in Ontario, Canada's most populous province, which accounts for 108 of the 338 seats in House of Commons.
20 Oct 2019 9:47 AM
Justin Trudeau wears protective vest after unspecified threat
RCMP spokeswoman Stephanie Dumoulin said for security reasons they do not comment on security measures given to the Prime Minister.
13 Oct 2019 1:57 PM
Watch: Voter asks Canadian Sikh MP Jagmeet Singh to cut off turban to look more Canadian
A practising Sikh, Jagmeet Singh is seen telling the man that ‘Canadians look like all sorts of people’, before shaking his hand.
03 Oct 2019 3:25 PM
Columns
Public spats are rarely pretty and the one between these two senior IPS officers has brought out the intense rivalries in the service
For a fleeting while, optimists wondered if the Covid-19 pandemic had sledgehammered some fundamental lessons into us
Educators have observed to their satisfaction that many examination reforms were necessitated by the current Covid-19 pandemic
None of the rights and liberties that the Constitution saw initially as being “fundamental” are present in the original form today