Shelley Jordan

OTTAWA – The Harper government's controversial income-splitting tax plan will encourage some workers — particularly women — to leave or stay out of the labour force, the parliamentary budget office said Tuesday.

OTTAWA – Canada's spy agency helped senior federal officials figure out how to deal with protests expected last summer in response to resource and energy development issues — including a pivotal decision on the Northern Gateway pipeline.

TORONTO – Nearly five months before Target Corp. decided to leave Canada, the retailer's executive team had already considered winding up operations as one of a list of options for its failing Canadian business.

VICTORIA – British Columbia's labour movement says it will continue to push for a $15 minimum wage even after the government introduced a 20-cent increase and a policy linking future hikes to inflation.

VANCOUVER – A jury has watched video that shows a woman accused of planning an attack at B.C.'s legislature telling her husband she was panicking in the hours before the plot was set to unfold.

WASHINGTON – Travel to the United States by road, rail and sea could undergo a major revamp as the result of a new agreement between Canada and the U.S.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin resurfaced Monday, smiling and looking his normal self after a 10-day absence from public view that fueled a wave of rumors about his health.

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has released a new plan for managing oilsands tailings ponds that it says will encourage companies to generate less of the toxic waste water and clean it up sooner. Environment Minister Kyle Fawcett says operators will have clear guidelines on how large tailings ponds will be allowed to grow. The...

PURMEREND, Netherlands – A falconer has captured an aggressive eagle owl that terrorized a Dutch town by swooping out of the sky and sinking its talons into residents' heads.

OTTAWA - The consequences of the global oil slump have started to seep into the country's labour market, washing away jobs in crude-rich provinces and pushing up the national unemployment rate. The jobless rate hit 6.8 per cent last month as oil-producing provinces like Alberta showed their first significant loss of jobs since crude prices...

OTTAWA - More questions emerged Friday in Ottawa and Istanbul amid further indications — including a mysterious video — that a Syrian man said to be working for Canada's intelligence service may have helped three British teenagers join the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. A Turkish news channel says a video that appears...

VANCOUVER – A British Columbia terrorism suspect was skeptical the provincial legislature was the best place to target with pressure-cooker bombs on Canada Day, but he appeared to change his mind after touring the area with an undercover RCMP officer, his trial heard Thursday.

TORONTO - The ratio of household debt to disposable income hit a new high in the fourth quarter, as rock-bottom interest rates continued to lure more Canadians into the real estate market. Statistics Canada said Thursday leverage, as measured by household credit market debt to disposable income, reached 163.3 per cent in the quarter. That...

ST. JOHN'S, N.L. – As Quebec health officials deal with a measles outbreak affecting 119 people, a new study says Canada needs a national database to help prevent and deal with future incidents.