EDMONTON — Alberta Premier Jim Prentice is heading to northern Alberta for talks with an aboriginal band that has been seeking land in the heart of the oilsands region for decades.
OTTAWA - The federal government's battle to lower the fees retailers pay to use credit cards — and theoretically cut costs for consumers — may be coming to an end.
OTTAWA - The governor general has paid his respects to Cpl. Nathan Cirillo, the soldier who was gunned down while on guard duty last week at the National War Memorial.
WINNIPEG - An internal report from Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada estimates it will take a $28-million injection of federal funding to reduce the number of deadly fires on Manitoba reserves, but only a fraction of that amount has been approved.
KUWAIT CITY - Canadian warplanes have taken up position in Kuwait, a country straining in its own way to hold back the tide of Islamic extremism from its borders.
WINNIPEG - Baby Errabella Harper was fast asleep in a three-bedroom house with no running water on St. Theresa Point First Nation when fire broke out.