In a province-wide address on Tuesday evening, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith vowed not to hold another referendum on the secession issue, while also urging separatist voters to “believe and hope in Canada again” following Monday’s referendum results.In her first public remarks since referendum polls closed, the premier again sought to elevate the various deals and major projects her government has signed with Prime Minister Mark Carney in an effort to mend Alberta’s fra

While suspects in the Toronto airport gold heist were under intense, around-the-clock police surveillance, one of them franticly made increasingly angry and desperate phone calls chasing down money, feeling cheated and abandoned by his friends, court heard.“It’s already falling apart,” a caller identified in court as Parmpal Sidhu said over the phone nine months after more than $22.5 million in gold bars and cash was stolen after arriving at Pearson airport on a flight from Sw

OTTAWA — The Parti Québécois’ decision to have the swearing-in ceremony of its cabinet ministers on Wednesday without the Quebec Lieutenant-Governor physically present in the room did not cause as much as a ripple from political friends and foes.Quebec Premier-elect Paul St-Pierre Plamondon, who has promised to cut ties with the monarchy, wrote to Manon Jeannotte earlier this week to ask her to not attend the ceremony and to instead sign the necessary documents from he

OTTAWA — Unions called on the federal government to repeal Section 107 from the Canada Labour Code during committee testimony on Tuesday, as members of Parliament study a bill that seeks to clarify its uses for ending strikes.“We’ve maintained … since (Section) 107 was starting to be used by this government, that governments should stay the hell out of bargaining,” said Mark Hancock, national president at the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).“The on

More than half the Albertans who voted in Monday’s referendum want more control over immigration to the province and to limit new immigrants’ access to social services.While the star of the historic vote was the question on whether Albertans wanted a referendum to leave Canada — more than three-quarters of those who voted nixed that option — nine other questions on the ballots delved into whether Alberta should wrest power away from Ottawa.Albertans seem to want a say in

OTTAWA — The Canadian economy will slow to a crawl over the coming months, which will lead the Carney government to increase both its borrowing and interest payments more than what was expected just four months ago, Ottawa’s fiscal watchdog said Tuesday in a new report.With the federal budget scheduled for Nov. 5, the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) added to the government’s fiscal squeeze by projecting that the Canadian economy will grow this calendar year by just 0.9 per c

The Canadian man accused of stealing and injuring a flamingo in a Las Vegas hotel in March has been found guilty of animal cruelty.Mitchell Fairbarn, 34, from Ontario was charged with two counts of animal cruelty, one stemming from his treatment of the animal, known as Peachy, while it was still in its habitat, the second for his treatment of the bird in the hotel back in March, reports KVVU , the Fox News affiliate in Las Vegas.He pleaded not guilty to the charges, as previously reported by Na

Ontario man Abdulrahman El Bahnasawy, 28, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after stabbing two prison guards at U.S. Penitentiary Allenwood in Pennsylvania, an attack that led to one of them losing his eye.The sentence for El Bahnasawy will run consecutively with the 40-year sentence he is already serving for his part in plotting a mass-casualty terrorist attack in New York City on behalf of ISIS.The attack at Allenwood occurred on Dec. 7, 2020, when El Bahnasawy went at the two guards u

U.S. President Donald Trump made an offer to Canada at a rally in Kansas on Monday, saying that he would let the country keep its national anthem and hockey if it became the 51st state .The comments were made about half way through his speech in Park City, where he was supporting U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall in the midterm election. Trump mentioned how car plants were thriving in the United States, but were leaving Mexico and Canada.“They’re leaving O Canada,” he said, in referenc