Indigenous children face the highest rates of poverty in the country, with almost one in every two living in households with low incomes, says a new study that shows little improvement in the situation over the last decade.
An association representing oil refineries launched a television ad in four swing states on Monday, July 8, 2019, criticizing President Donald Trump's moves to expand the use of ethanol in gasoline.
Quebec's Superior Court on Monday, July 8, 2019, rejected a request by a Montreal English school board to save two east-end schools from being transferred to the overcrowded French system.
Three women who shared their stories of sexual harassment as part of a class-action lawsuit against the RCMP have shown great courage so others who may have endured similar experiences can come forward, a lawyer said on Monday, July 8, 2019.
The federal government has announced new measures to protect North Atlantic right whales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence that have been dying from ship strikes and getting caught in fishing gear.
The escalating tensions in the Persian Gulf between Iran and the United States have implications for the future safety of Canadian troops in Iraq, analysts suggested on Monday, July 8, 2019.
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney was met at his Calgary Stampede pancake breakfast by a handful of people voicing opposition to an education law that they say puts gay and transgender students at risk.
A government source assembled a full list of the cancelled projects and shared it exclusively with National Observer. The leaked list reveals a wide range of initiatives set to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that lost their funding, including schools, hospitals, small businesses and several social housing providers.
Its reputation has been bruised by a simmering fight with disgruntled franchisees and has faced staunch criticism for how it handled a planned increase in Ontario's minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2019. (That issue was made moot by Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government cancelling the previous Liberal government's legislation.) What's next?
The treatment of migrants has recently been thrust into the spotlight as accounts emerge of overcrowding and unsanitary conditions in American border detention facilities.
Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is promising to scrap new standards that will force cleaner-burning fuels, in addition to eliminating the federal price on carbon if his party wins the fall federal election.