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TransUnion says ripple effect of oil price slump seeing more consumers struggling to make payments Debt delinquencies rise in Alberta, bucking national trend Credit and loan delinquencies are starting to pile up in Alberta as consumers cope with the ripple effects of the collapse in the price...

Senator John Wallace quits Conservative caucus New Brunswick Senator John Wallace has resigned from the federal Conservative caucus, citing the idea that the appointed upper chamber is supposed to operate independently. Wallace, appointed to the Senate in 2008 by then Prime Minister Stephen...

Just the jabs that cap'n and petey belong to. 96 per cent of Canadian economy no less competitive under carbon pricing OTTAWA — Canadians may have been told that carbon pricing is a “job-killing tax on everything,” but a new study finds the impact rather underwhelming. The latest report from...

Domestic violence in Alberta homes is getting worse, say shelter organizers The shocking numbers behind Alberta MLA's story of domestic abuse Politician Maria Fitzpatrick brought the Alberta legislature to its feet — and to tears — with her wrenching account of domestic abuse on Monday...

So they caught Boomer in Toronto, but who lives in Montreal that's from CanCon? Montreal police arrest man in mask who vowed to kill Muslims in Quebec Montreal police have made an arrest in the case of a video threatening Muslim people in Quebec. The video showed a man in a "Joker"-type...

This is an outrage! The Mexican Syrian Terrorist Refugee Daesh are going to.. anyway.. Justin Trudeau formally commits to lifting visa requirement for Mexicans Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has formally committed to removing visa requirements for Mexican citizens entering Canada, a policy...

Muslim woman attacked in Toronto, told to ‘go back to your country’: police TORONTO — Police are searching for at least two suspects in connection with a hate crime investigation after a Muslim woman was allegedly attacked and robbed while picking up her children from a Toronto school on...

Harper's defeat worse, Conservative opposition smaller than most When Stephen Harper conceded defeat on election night, he took solace that he had elected a "strong Official Opposition." A number of Conservative MPs and commentators have also seen this silver lining in the results of the Oct...

Enbridge cuts 5% of workforce Enbridge is cutting five per cent of its workforce — about 500 people and 100 unfilled positions — in Canada and the United States, the Calgary-based pipeline company announced Monday. The reductions are being made across the company, said a statement issued by...

It just makes sense. Trudeau tells G20 leaders Canada will still pull jets from Iraq and Syria ANTALYA, Turkey -- Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told his fellow G20 leaders that Canada will continue to make a strong military contribution in the fight against Islamic militants -- but it...

Slide in oil prices continues to impact Alberta economy The slide in oil prices continues to significantly impact Alberta’s economy with real GDP expected to contract one per cent in 2015, according to the Provincial Monitor report by BMO Capital Markets. “That would be down from steady four...

Obama applauds Trudeau in closed-door meeting Senior Liberals in Antalya, Turkey, are pretty excited that Justin Trudeau and Barack Obama seem to be hitting it off. Canada’s new Prime Minister had already spoken twice by phone with the President of the United States and they are scheduled to...

The terrorists have won. G20 vows more intelligence sharing, but little shift on Syria By Kylie MacLellan and Nick Tattersall BELEK, Turkey (Reuters) - World leaders promised to tighten border controls, step up intelligence sharing and crack down on terrorist financing at a summit in Turkey...

French Ambassador: Paris Attacks Shouldn't Stop Canada From Helping Refugees OTTAWA — Nicolas Chapuis, the French ambassador to Canada, was busy in his office Friday and had no idea of the carnage unfolding in Paris until he received a painfully short email note from his son, who is studying...

Cheap oil and climate change spell opportunity for energy giants "They can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear" sounds like an admiring remark from your grandma. But when it comes to facing up to something ostensibly bad and turning it into something precious, there is no one better equipped...

Trudeau pushes youth, growth, diversity, and mobbed for selfies, at G20 ANTALYA, Turkey - Justin Trudeau used his international debut Sunday to tell a top tier G20 business audience that long-term investments in infrastructure and youth are the keys to growth, not a preoccupation with...

Voters take Conservatives for fools. Do Conservatives take voters for fools?: Hepburn When they were in power, Conservative cabinet ministers were the loudest cheerleaders for Stephen Harper’s nastiest and most controversial decisions and policies. To listen to them even just a few days...

Canada needs to keep an eye on low oil prices: Finance Minister BELEK, Turkey (Reuters) - Canada needs to keep a close eye on low oil prices, which the ruling Liberal Party took into consideration when drawing up an election platform that called for extra stimulus, new Finance Minister Bill...

Max Bothwell, research scientist at Environment Canada “I list a series of four hypotheses that might explain this, and one of them is climate change,” Dr. Bothwell said. He added that, for the first time this past summer, rock snot started to bloom in the St. Mary’s River, which connects Lake...

Forget Keystone XL, The Clean Energy Sector Has Jobs President Obama had plenty of good reasons for rejecting the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline on Nov. 6, but here's one more reason that made it all the more logical: We're already creating lots of energy jobs in America: Clean, renewable...