Canada

Ontario’s Progressive Conservative party is giving members more time to cast their votes for a new leader. A senior party source says the deadline to vote for Patrick Brown’s replacement has been pushed back to noon on Friday, March 9, a half day later than the original deadline. The party …

MONTREAL—Quebec-based convenience store chain Couche-Tard has decided to voluntarily pull an alcoholic beverage from its shelves. The company announced in a statement on Friday that it has asked its retailers to stop selling FCKD UP because of what it called “recent events.” The announcement came hours after the body of …

OTTAWA— U.S. President Donald Trump boasted Friday that “trade wars are good, and easy to win,” after his threat to tax steel and aluminum imports marked the latest flashpoint in simmering tensions over cross-border commerce between Canada and its largest trading partner. The federal government, already at odds with Washington …

ONTARIO — A newspaper in northern Ontario is apologizing for a headline on a story about a police investigation into two incidents where eggs were thrown from passing vehicles at two men believed to be Indigenous. The headline in Thursday’s print edition of the Chronicle-Journal referred to the alleged attacks …

Noel Edison, the long-time conductor and artistic director of both the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and the Elora Festival Singers, was abruptly put on “personal leave” by both organizations following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. In a joint letter posted on the Mendelssohn Choir website on Thursday, senior officials of both …

OTTAWA — After months of delay, Liberals have tweaked a bill setting out new arms export rules but left loopholes open that some experts say defeat the the legislation’s purpose. The bill that facilitates Canada’s accession to the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty passed committee stage in the House of …

OTTAWA—A severe shortage of rail cars has left millions of tonnes of in-demand grain trapped across Western Canada and farmers warn that billions of dollars in economic activity could be lost unless the government acts soon. Representatives of the agriculture industry were in Ottawa on Thursday pressuring legislators to provide …

OTTAWA—Justin Trudeau doubled down Wednesday on his support for a senior government official who suggested factions in the Indian government sabotaged the prime minister’s trip to India last week — despite a flat denial from India’s external affairs ministry which labelled the theory “baseless and unacceptable.” Trudeau’s insistence that the …

OTTAWA—International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau says she wants to use the new $2 billion in extra aid dollars in Tuesday’s budget to attract insurance and pension funds to invest in fight global poverty. Bibeau says she’s targeting them for a simple reason — they’ve got plenty of money. She says …

OTTAWA—The Canadian Forces is scrambling for answers after one of its military helicopters dropped an inflatable life raft that smashed a hole in the roof of a home in Miami. The Griffon search-and-rescue helicopter was on a training exercise in Florida on Wednesday and returning to a U.S. Coast Guard …