OTTAWA — Statistics Canada is privately floating the idea of new powers to make all of its surveys mandatory and to force companies to hand over data such as credit card transactions and Internet search records.
MONTREAL — Defence witnesses at Richard Henry Bain's first-degree murder trial portrayed him Monday as someone who never appeared at odds with francophones.
CALGARY — A University of Calgary professor hopes his research will help firefighters spring into action more quickly when forest fires strike in remote areas.
OTTAWA — Health Minister Jane Philpott says Canada and the U.S. need to examine why they are the top two opioid-gobbling countries in the world.
Support crews for 39-year-old triathlete Adam Ellenstein say he had completed 72 kilometres of his planned 105-kilometre swim from Okanagan Landing south to Penticton by Tuesday morning.
A tax intended to calm soaring real estate prices in Vancouver may be difficult to enforce because the foreign homebuyers it's aimed at may be able to get around it, experts say.