10+ hour, 36+ min ago   (703+ words) In almost 100 fights, Canadian boxing titan George Chuvalo was never knocked out and never fell to the canvas. A five-time Canadian heavyweight champion and two-time world heavyweight challenger, Chuvalo died Saturday in Toronto on his 89th birthday. “He was a capital-T…...

13+ hour, 21+ min ago   (305+ words) TORONTO — Protests are planned for the prime minister’s high-stakes summit aimed at attracting new investment to Canada, with organizers saying Mark Carney is keeping company with business leaders they say are exacerbating global crises. Hundreds of executives and global asset…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (1120+ words) Prime Minister Mark Carney will gather scores of deep-pocketed investors in Toronto next week in a bid to fix Canada’s “Achilles heel” — a persistent lack of business investment dragging down the economy. Hundreds of global and domestic investors with trillions…...

3+ day, 6+ hour ago   (700+ words) Bats may have a reputation for being creepy, disease-carrying creatures of the night, but a longtime Saskatchewan bat researcher said they deserve a little more appreciation. “They’re in the spider, snake, shark category of animals that people don’t particularly like,…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (763+ words) Distilleries and spirit makers are likely to be the hardest hit among Canadian alcohol producers as the United States proposes a broad ban on Canadian booze starting later this month. Craig Johnston, chief economist at Farm Credit Canada, said distilleries…...

3+ day, 11+ hour ago   (449+ words) FREDERICTON — New Brunswick Premier Susan Holt has ordered the province’s public sector to stop buying American products when Canadian substitutes are available, saying the move is in response to the latest round of U.S. tariffs. As well, Holt announced…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (1217+ words) OTTAWA — The Conservative party’s big tent has been filled with infighting these past few months. It may not be obvious to anyone who spent the summer in an actual tent, rather than on social media, but fractures are forming within…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (1430+ words) OTTAWA — Before the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Steven Backman could usually cross the Canada-U.S. border with a simple wave. Backman, like many residents of St. Stephen, N.B., would travel frequently to neighbouring Calais, Maine. “When locals would go through the border,…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1642+ words) TORONTO — Twenty-five years after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center spurred widespread surveillance and hostility against Muslims around the world, the work of countering Islamophobia in Canada still rests largely on those it targets, a major Islamic organization…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (378+ words) REGINA — Saskatchewan’s Opposition is calling on a government backbencher to show his receipts after he says he paid out of his own pocket for a private jet to criss-cross the province. Kevin Weedmark, the Saskatchewan Party legislature member for Moosomin-Montmartre,…...