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'Fantastic' math teacher also a chess champion Nathan Divinsky, a mathematics professor, chess champion and civic politician who was married for 11 years to former prime minister Kim Campbell, died on the weekend. He was 86. Divinsky spent more than 40 years at the University of B.C...

Canada’s forecast looks grim as growth, jobs slow OTTAWA — New private sector forecasts see Canada’s economy struggling to maintain momentum in the next two years, held back by weak job growth and vulnerable to both external and internal shocks. Under this scenario, the CIBC says...

NDP filibuster saves F-35 probe Investigation to resume in fall OTTAWA — The Harper government’s attempt to shut down a House of Commons committee investigation into the handling of the F-35 stealth-fighter deal has failed, thanks to a filibuster by...

U.S. impatient for Canadian move on Khadr The United States is frustrated by Canada's reluctance to ask for Omar Khadr to be returned home, a U.S. military lawyer charged Thursday. Lt.-Col. Jon Jackson, Khadr's lead U.S. military lawyer, said American officials he's spoken with can't...

John Ivison: Kiss goodbye to supply management As Martha Hall Findlay reeled off the reasons why Canada’s supply management system should be dismantled, you could almost hear time’s winged chariot changing gears in the background. The former Liberal MP’s research paper, which landed in the...

Tories tout record as Parliament breaks for summer As the House of Commons shuts down for its summer break, the ruling Conservatives say they not only kept their promises, but also created a stable economy in a world of financial chaos. "While many parts of the world face political...

Andrew Coyne: Feud with budget officer a conflict between Conservatives and their own ideals Once, when the world was young, the Conservatives had an idea. The Liberal governments of Jean Chrétien were notorious for playing games at budget time, understating revenues and overstating...

Hot enough for you? Country’s top forecaster calls heatwave ‘opening act’ A hotter and drier summer than usual is in the cards for Canadians, the country’s top weather guru says. “There’s no guarantee with weather – not in Canada, maye in Malta or Cyprus or Honolulu ... But our models are...

Ancient Turtles Died Copulating A 47-million-year-old fossil of nine turtle couples in the act of mating has been found. The turtles, described in the latest Biology Letters, apparently died in the throws of passion. While deeply engaged in copulation, they drifted into poisonous water and...

Scam promised foreigners high-paying oilpatch jobs WINNIPEG — A Canadian man from Nepal says more than 100 people from the Asian country have been financially ruined in a scheme that promised them high-paying jobs in the Alberta oilpatch. Bradley Jacobson and Kendall Schmidt have...

Harper’s office praises Mountie disciplined for bullying underlings The Prime Minister’s Office is praising the work of a senior RCMP officer who was recently disciplined for workplace bullying inside of Stephen Harper’s security detail. An internal memo sent to Conservatives by Mr. Harper’s...

Canada’s biggest risks to economy are internal, OECD warns Canada’s economy will see moderate growth over the next two years, despite headwinds from Europe and elsewhere, but it faces internal risks from record household debt, lagging business innovation and low productivity, according to...

Rio draft weakened Negotiators for Canada and more than 100 other countries have signed a draft blueprint for sustainable development, but critics say Canada was instrumental in making the plan unduly weak. After months of trying to boil down proposals, environmental officials at the Rio+20...

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Must be dem unions! :lol: Bystander snaps photo of police officers snoozing in cruiser MONTREAL - A Montreal man who snapped photos of two police officers snoozing in their police cruiser Tuesday said one of the officers didn’t appear to be bothered that he had been caught napping on...

Hudak got off too easy for his role in Ontario’s budget crisis As Ontario teetered on the brink of its second election in less than a year, attention was squarely focused on the public spat between Dalton McGuinty and Andrea Horwath. But to understand why the province’s minority legislature...

Secret documents show Canada’s aggressive campaign to be included in Trans-Pacific Partnership OTTAWA — New documents reveal Ottawa has for months been pushing the United States to allow Canada into Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade talks, telling the Americans it’s in their economic...

12 hours before the denier crap was debunked. That's a new record.

Jason Kenney lobs email A-bomb at Alberta deputy premier Federal immigration minister commits mass emailing error EDMONTON - The only explanation seems to be that when Jason Kenney, the federal immigration minister, hit the button on his personal email account, he accidentally hit “reply...

Europe snaps back at Harper over lecture on debt crisis LOS CABOS, Mexico — Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a stern challenge to Europe Monday to pull itself out of its debt crisis with its own funds and to overhaul the eurozone with structural changes that create a "genuine" financial...