Harper’s communications director resigns, citing fatigueAngelo Perischilli, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Director of Communications for seven months, announced Friday he’s stepping...
Foxconn, the China-based iPad and iPhone manufacturer, upgrades labour standards in agreement with AppleAfter widespread accusations that Apple is profiting from sweatshop manufacturing through much of its Asia-based supply chain, the...
Biggest lottery jackpot ever up for grabs in the US, and Canadians are welcome to buy ticketsWhat would you do with US$540 million? Some astronomically lucky person may have to actually ponder that question today as the...
French police arrest 19 in dawn raids on suspected radical Islamists, on day after Mohamed Merah is buriedIn a series of dawn raids across France, elite police arrested 19 suspected radical Islamists. The France 24 news agency is...
Robocalls scandal touches ’pretty much the whole country’: Elections Canada chiefAppearing before a House of Commons committee on the same day that most reporters were tied up with budget speculation and...
Israel closes off West Bank ahead of Palestinians’ Land Day demonstrationsIsrael is tightening security and closing off the occupied West Bank as Palestinians and their supporters prepare for what are...
Good-bye penny, hello multiples of fiveStarting this fall, there will be no more digging through pockets and purses for spare pennies to pay the odd number of cents for...
First majority Conservative budget kills the penny, raises OAS eligibility age to 67 and slashes $5.2 billion in spendingThe first budget for the majority Conservative budget promised to do away with the penny, raise the eligibility age for Old Age...
INTERACTIVE: BUDGET 2012Take a look at how the federal government’s revenues and spending patterns have changed over time—we’ve got the data going all...