Truro Daily News

HALIFAX — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government is being pushed by backbenchers and grassroots Liberals to take a more progressive stance on issues such as pharmacare, prostitution and illegal drugs. The pressure came ...

SPRINGDALE, N.L. — Prominent Newfoundlanders are criticizing a town's rejection of a rainbow crosswalk sought by a high school group as a show of support for the LGBTQ community. Comedian Mark Critch and former Great Big Sea members Alan ...

MONTREAL — WestJet's new chief executive appears more open to negotiating with employees, but the hiring of outside pilots is hampering efforts to reach a deal, the head of the pilots' union said Friday after the labour ...

OTTAWA — A haze of marijuana smoke blanketed crowds on Parliament Hill on Friday as pot enthusiasts of all ages gathered below the Peace Tower for the annual cannabis celebration known as 4-20. The event marks the last time pot users will flock to ...

WINNIPEG — The Manitoba Metis Federation and the province have agreed to a two-week "reset" in the hope of avoiding a court date over planned hydro projects. Federation president David Chartrand and Crown Services Minister Cliff Cullen had a private ...

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — A schizophrenic man accused of murdering a high school student in Abbotsford, B.C., may never be well enough for the court case to go ahead, his lawyer says. B.C. Supreme Court Justice Heather Holmes ruled Friday that ...

WASHINGTON — NAFTA negotiating teams will keep bargaining through the weekend in a rush to get a deal by early May, fuelled by a Trump administration desire to meet a legislative deadline. Those teams kept talking while ...

Canadian First Nations are gearing up to fight new U.S. oil-drilling interest in the calving grounds of a caribou herd key to Indigenous physical and cultural survival. "We will continue to fight," said Chief Wanda Pascal of the Tetlit ...

CHILLIWACK, B.C. — A toothy teaching tool has vanished from a park in British Columbia, and educators working there hope the fluffy stuffie will be returned. Justin Beaver, a nearly 10-kilogram, taxidermied beaver, is used by naturalists ...

OTTAWA — Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland sees the clash between the forces of democracy and authoritarianism as a defining conflict of our time, and she blames one country that she knows extremely well — Russia. That world view will ...