Ferguson was appointed Canada’s auditor general in November, 2011, after serving as New Brunswick’s auditor general and deputy finance minister.

Flight returns to LAX 3 times for 3 separate problems

Via Rail says a train travelling between Toronto and Ottawa struck debris near Trenton, Ont., on Saturday, causing a fuel leak and damage to the train’s windows.

As the 2020 primary gets underway, U.S. Senators are faced with the question of whether they should build incrementally on the Affordable Care Act, scrap the insurance sector entirely and create a European-style public program.

Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia, facing pressure from his own party to resign, said he would not quit and denied that he appeared in Ku Klux Klan robes or in blackface in images from his medical school yearbook.

Officers don’t know what the man was doing outside of his vehicle but he was struck by the truck as a result.

The mayor of a small New Brunswick village says he hopes that selling empty plots of land for $1 each will further bolster the town’s population.

Russia will abandon a centrepiece nuclear arms treaty but will only deploy intermediate-range nuclear missiles if the U.S. does so, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin said Saturday.

Albania police arrest 32 in counterfeit travel visa scheme

Albania police arrest 32 in counterfeit travel visa scheme

Canada’s two most famous forecasting groundhogs, Wiarton Willie and Shubenacadie Sam, have given conflicting predictions of what’s to come for Canadian weather.

The Trump administration is appealing a federal court in Montana’s decision to block TransCanada Corp.’s $8 billion Keystone XL crude pipeline project.

The company approached the ministry for confirmation on the legality of the payments, which Costco voluntarily stopped receiving until the completion of the ministry’s review.

McArthur, who pleaded guilty this week to eight counts of first-degree murder, had been interviewed by police a few years ago in a separate, unrelated incident.

Firefighters were called to the fire just before 5 a.m.

Results from an internal survey found fewer than half of federal departments and agencies have a GBA+ plan, with most departments saying they lack the internal mechanisms to apply one.

Ross Matheson is 65 but is believed to function at a lower capacity

Germany: Sausage museum reconsiders move to Nazi camp site

Beach taken over by elephant seals to reopen for viewing

The Palfis won’t be deported to Hungary Sunday

Stratosphere casino-hotel in Las Vegas to be renamed

The West has done what it can in Afghanistan. Some progress, such as female rights and education, has been made but it is time to go, writes Thomas Walkom.

A spokesperson for Health Minister Christine Elliott says she has signed an extension to allow existing sites to continue operating until March 31 while the ministry reviews applications.

In December, Vickers indicated an interest in the job, but at the time said he was a “long ways from making a decision.”

Now at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Above the Fold, presents their work in sculptures, both large and small.

National parks rush to repair damage after shutdown

Ron Joyce lived a Horatio Alger life, rising from his humble roots in small town Nova Scotia in a house with no plumbing and electricity to amassing a net worth of more than $1.3 billion.

Now at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, Above the Fold, presents their work in sculptures, both large and small.

Event takes place Feb. 22 at Dundas Valley Golf & Curling Club

Skylawn Johnson was “in survival mode” until he met lawyer Dean Collett.

The city is closing roads in the Locke Street area this weekend to complete sewer lining work. Businesses will stay open. The closures begin Saturday and wrap up Monday morning. They include Aberdeen Avenue eastbound at Locke, Undermount Avenue in both directions at Aberdeen, and Locke in both directions from Aberdeen to Homewood Avenue.

Philip Grandine guilty of manslaughter, Crown attorneys say in an opening statement

Former House of Commons sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers says he is retiring next month as Canada’s ambassador to Ireland, and many New Brunswick Liberals say they’re hoping Vickers is preparing for a bid to become the province’s next Liberal leader.

The Hamilton Chamber of Commerce is holding a “Business After Business” at Collective Arts Brewing.

“There are too many headaches,” Cece Luppino said, according to 2015 recording between cousin and police agent

A man charged with killing his wife at a Montreal long-term care facility told a jury Friday he struggled to provide care as her advanced Alzheimer’s worsened.

The Ontario government is appealing a court ruling that found the enforcement powers held by the province’s private animal welfare agency were unconstitutional.

Streetcar fares in Oklahoma City take effect Saturday

The Latest: Reopened national park allows seals viewing

Canada and its Lima Group allies will use their Monday meeting in Ottawa to find new ways — including financial — to support the Venezuelan opposition and ease the refugee crisis in neighbouring Brazil and Colombia.

Joyce was the mastermind behind Tim Hortons, taking the business from a humble first store on Ottawa Street North in Hamilton to an empire of franchises that changed fast food history.

Talking about pending legal matters is not kosher, judge says

Australia sweltered through its hottest month on record in January and the summer of extremes continued with wildfires razing the drought-parched south and flooding in expanses of the tropical north.

Oswaldo Garcia Padilla says he has experienced firsthand the brutality of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s regime

Russia has been approached 30 times by the U.S. to stop deploying cruise missiles, because it violates an international treaty. They have not done so, and the U.S. now says it will pull out of the treaty in six months if Russia does not change its stance.

Hamilton’s public school board is urging Queen’s Park to put more space between legal pot shops and schools.

Whitehead still needs the Liberal party’s blessing to contest the nomination. But if he wins, he would go up against former Hamilton council colleague and NDP MP Scott Duvall.

Brock University industry expert’s analysis sees the need for more output, more retail and better marketing, but there are signs the supply shortage will ease this year.

Dispensary chain had four locations closed by Hamilton police last week, opened and closed another store, before Six Nations venture

Ron Joyce, a former Hamilton police officer, continued and expanded the business after his business partner was killed in a crash