OTTAWA — Finance Minister Joe Oliver will huddle with private-sector economists early next month to prepare for his pre-election budget — a blueprint set for release as the oil slump forces experts to downgrade economic forecasts.
The motion passed by a 106-0 vote and urges Harper to transfer the data to Quebec, which is setting up its own registry.
OTTAWA — The Harper government is offering yet another new lump-sum benefit to the country's most critically wounded soldiers, hoping to silence complaints that the existing pain and suffering awards are too cheap.
Miami-Dade police say Alexander Sanghwan — listed as being from Ontario — was walking on the edge of a road around 5:30 a.m. on Sunday when he was struck.
KAMLOOPS, B.C. — A B.C. man says he feared an erratically driven speedboat would crash into his boat moments before a fatal collision killed the owner of a houseboat on Shuswap Lake.
Spokeswoman Kristen Kish says the Seattle-based retailer has set up a testing facility in rural British Columbia, declining to provide more specifics.