Premier Kathleen Wynne announced Monday that the government is providing $2 million to the Red Cross and $1 million to Medecins Sans Frontieres.
The container ship was en route to Russia from Washington state when it lost power on Thursday night west of the Haida Gwaii archipelago, off B.C.'s north coast.
EDMONTON - Health advocates fear part of Alberta's flavoured tobacco legislation that would ban menthol may go up in smoke. Cathy Gladwin asked Health Minister Stephen Mandel and Premier Jim Prentice about the law last week when they knocked on her door while they were campaigning in Edmonton, where Mandel hopes to win a seat in a byelection.
CALGARY - Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. said Monday that talks with U.S. peer CSX Corp. have ended without a deal, as regulatory hurdles put a damper on the Calgary-based company's hope for an expanded North American rail network.
OTTAWA - Justin Trudeau says revealing what makes political leaders tick is just as important as disclosing the minutiae of the policies they'd implement.
CAUTION: GRAPHIC CONTENT MAY DISTURB SOME READERS MONTREAL — Prime Minister Stephen Harper's deputy chief of staff testified at Luka Rocco Magnotta's first-degree murder trial on Monday about the day her office received a parcel containing the foot of victim Jun Lin.