A 16-year-old boy is in hospital with what police described as serious head trauma after he fell off a moving train in Dorval early Sunday morning. Montreal police spokesperson Raphaël Bergeron said the incident happened at around 1:30 a.m. on the train tracks near Cardinal Avenue. Preliminary reports indicate the teen was trying to jump […]
OTTAWA — Justin Trudeau says his government hopes to make legal changes that will cement his transformation of the Senate into a more independent, non-partisan chamber, making it harder for a future prime minister to turn back the clock. The prime minister says his government will amend the Parliament of Canada Act — the law […]
WASHINGTON • US President Donald Trump predicts a major US-China trade deal in the near future, saying that Beijing’s negotiating position had been weakened by the impact of the tariff war between the world’s top two economies. “China wants to make a big and very comprehensive deal. It could happen, and rather soon!” Mr Trump […]
A Canadian mining company has uncovered some record-breaking bling — a diamond said to be the largest ever found in North America. The 552-carat yellow gem was discovered in October at the Diavik Diamond Mine, located about 220 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories. The company, Dominion Diamond Mines, said the […]
A Halifax rally that was meant to show support for the yellow vest protests in France unexpectedly turned into a conversation about immigration on Saturday. The rally outside City Hall was originally meant to focus on the United Nations Pact and the federal carbon tax. But that focus shifted after two local activists confronted the […]
He is the latest in a series of high-profile departures from the president’s administration. Mr Trump posted on Twitter: “Secretary of the Interior @RyanZinke will be leaving the Administration at the end of the year after having served for a period of almost two years,” adding that a replacement would be announced next week. Mr […]
More than 3,000 Central Americans in southern Mexico are under consideration for refugee status in country. Tapachula, Mexico – Samuel Isai Mejia’s problems began last year with workplace sexual harassment, but things quickly snowballed from there. Facing intimidation from police and military forces as well as gangs, he fled Honduras this year. Mejia is from […]
[What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] Not long after Google moved into the Chelsea neighborhood in Manhattan, its billionaire co-founder, Sergey Brin, went on a private tour of the old elevated freight line that would become the celebrated High Line. Mr. Brin looked over the […]
They say the arrest of the Huawei CFO in Canada has nothing to do with the US-China trade war. Top government officials from Canada and the United States have met in Washington at a time when both the countries are locked in disputes with China. Top on the list of their concerns was the China’s […]
Thinking about taxes is no one’s idea of getting into the holiday spirit — but cleaning up your tax act before the end of the year could yield a bigger tax refund or give one last boost to your 2018 savings. Here are four tips to make the most of tax credits, refunds and government […]