Canada's National Observer
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November 9th 2018
The Canadian proponent of the $10-billion Keystone XL crude pipeline says it remains committed to the project despite a Montana judge's ruling that it must pass a further environmental review. The Trudeau government, meantime, says it is "disappointed" about the news.
When the armistice that ended the First World War was signed and the guns fell silent on Nov. 11, 1918, Canadians wearily celebrated what they hoped was the start of a new era of peace.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says politicians need to learn how to enhance citizen engagement through the use of social media in the face of leaders using those platforms to undermine democracy.
A new $10 banknote featuring Viola Desmond's portrait will go into circulation in a week, just over 72 years after she was ousted from the whites-only section of a movie theatre in New Glasgow, N.S.
The leader of Canada's first Indigenous group to win title to its territory says an updated agreement it's negotiating with the federal government is part of a new model of relations between Ottawa and First Nations.
When she was 17 years old, Liz was coerced by a Children's Aid worker into having an abortion and being sterilized at a northwestern Ontario hospital, she says — an experience she's carried for 40 years.
Canada will continue to encourage other countries to offer more family planning services including contraception and abortion because they're key to fighting poverty, the country's international development minister said on Sunday, November 11, 2018.
Imagine producing a bumper crop of a product in high demand around the globe, only to learn you must settle for a discounted price because there's no easy way to get your product to market.
Crude oil prices dipped to near a nine-month low as they fell for a tenth consecutive day, potentially having an impact on the Bank of Canada interest rate decision next month.
Mourners in Quebec City braved a fall snowstorm on Saturday, November 10, 2018, to pay their respects to former premier Bernard Landry as his body in lay in state at the provincial legislature.
A series of international leaders used a global commemoration of the end of the First World War to warn about the risk politicians who call themselves nationalists pose to a fragile peace, in a message aimed at the American president.
New Brunswick's new Tory government has taken power, with a 17-member cabinet that includes four women and the party's lone francophone MLA as deputy premier.
