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Ottawa to invest $20M in stem cell research The government will be investing $20 million in regenerative medicine and stem cell research, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Wednesday morning. Speaking at the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine (CCRM) in Toronto, Trudeau...

Insurance Company Pays University To Help Mitigate Climate Change Risks Insurance company Intact Financial Corp. will collaborate with the University of Waterloo (UW) in Canada to mitigate the risks of climate change by creating the Intact Center on Climate Adaptation (ICCA). The ICCA's chief...

2 Ways to Generate Huge Income From Bombardier Here are two ways an investor can get exposure to Bombardier’s turnaround and collect handsome dividends while they wait. Preferred shares Preferred shares are a hybrid between equity and debt. They’re issued at a par price (usually $25 per...

Welcome to Guelph, Ont., pop. 121,688 and Canada’s jobs powerhouse The folks at the Vienna Restaurant in downtown Guelph, Ont., were too to busy to talk to me when I phoned around brunch time yesterday to get some information about the diner, asking me nicely to call back later. I could tell...

“This is a group that not only left to its own devices would slaughter literally millions of people in its wake but has a stated intention to launch terrorist attacks around the world, including against this country." Stephen Harper 2% of Canadian anti-ISIS airstrikes had targets in Syria...

'She has got to go': Kevin O'Leary offers $1M if Notley resigns Kevin O'Leary made an impassioned plea to Alberta Premier Rachel Notley on Tuesday morning, asking her to step down for the sake of the Canadian economy. Speaking to Toronto radio station Newstalk 1010, O'Leary offered to invest...

TransCanada the underdog in NAFTA gambit over Keystone XL rejection Legal observers say that while TransCanada Corp. appears to have a strong case under the North American free-trade agreement to challenge Washington’s rejection of its Keystone XL pipeline, the Calgary-based company has just...

How U.S. gun ownership became a ‘right,’ and why it isn’t "That,” we tell ourselves, “is just the way the Americans are.” We say it every time some firearms horror strikes a movie theatre or school or workplace. We say it when the U.S. President, reduced to tears, tries to use his limited...

Images of starvation as UN aid allowed into Syrian towns The Syrian government has agreed to allow humanitarian assistance into three beleaguered villages following reports of deaths from malnutrition in that part of the country, a U.N. official said Thursday. Meanwhile, the aid group Doctors...

Progressives in Alberta are now the quiet majority. Sweeping demographic changes due to interprovincial and international migration have drastically changed what was once Canada’s most conservative province. In just the past nine years, 531,000 people, a city almost half the size of Calgary...

Won't somebody think about the veterans?? Canadians’ support for taking in Syrian refugees is increasing: Ipsos poll A new Ipsos poll shows a majority of Canadians support the Liberal government’s plan to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees and support has increased sharply following the Paris...

What kind of idiot would have ever bet on oil. Oh yea... Oil prices drop as weak China data and stronger dollar drag LONDON (Reuters) - Oil prices fell on Tuesday on concerns about the pace of economic growth in China and a stronger U.S. dollar, handing back some of the gains triggered by...

Environmentalists don't see Regina pushing on climate change front On the heels of the Paris Climate Change Conference, governments at all levels are looking inward, parsing what role they have to play. The City of Regina is no exception: The municipality has been in this game a while and...

The dozen who will dominate politics in 2016 1. Justin Trudeau (Montreal/Ottawa) An activist prime minister with a brimming agenda, Trudeau will lead a team in 2016 that will move on files as disparate as physician-assisted dying, climate change, marijuana legalization, electoral reform and...

How Canada's timeline for resettling Syrian refugees jumped from years to months OTTAWA -- When the Conservative government promised, in January 2015, to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees over three years, Liberal MP John McCallum didn't buy it. The Conservatives were under pressure to address...

2015: The Year the Environmental Movement Knocked Out Keystone XL In 2008, TransCanada applied for a U.S. presidential permit to build a segment of pipeline that would connect Alberta's landlocked oil with refineries in the Gulf of Mexico, and give tar sands access to world markets. On its path...

Gotta love those free market government handouts. UK becomes only G7 country to increase fossil fuel subsidies The UK is alone among G7 nations in dramatically increasing its fossil fuel subsidies, despite an earlier pledge to phase them out, a new report has found. The revelation will...

Pope Francis's Christmas message praises countries taking in refugees Pope Francis urged the world in his Christmas message today to unite to end atrocities by militants that he said were causing immense suffering in many countries. Security was tight at the Vatican in Rome as Francis, marking...

How to right the Conservative ship Tony Clement is the member of Parliament for Parry Sound-Muskoka. Our parents and Mick Jagger have taught us that “you can’t always get what you want,” and the Conservative Party experienced that in October’s federal election. First the good news: 5.6 million...

Problem with Rachel Notley? Tough, there won't be a counter-revolution I'd like to introduce you to Henry. It's likely you've met dozens of Henrys over the past seven months. You might be like Henry yourself. Henry is 57 and works in upper management at an oil and gas company in downtown...