An overwhelming majority of Canadians want Alberta to remain part of a unified Canada and would vote for their own province to do the same, according to new data from Ipsos exclusively for Global News. A full 81 per cent of respondents outside of Alberta said they want the Wild Rose province to remain part…

In three and a half weeks, the Alberta referendum will ask residents if they want to hold a formal vote on whether to stay or leave Canada — and most have their minds made up. An Ipsos poll exclusively for Global News conducted online interviews with 1,500 Canadian adults between Sept. 18 and 22, including…

Milton, Ont. mayoral candidates Gord Krantz and Zainab Azim sat together at a booth in Troy’s diner Wednesday, sipping on milkshakes — one chocolate and one strawberry. The pair are running against each other in the upcoming municipal election, but are committed to ensuring they run clean campaigns. To do so, they teamed up to…

The number of Ontario long-term care homes receiving emergency funding to bail them out in exceptional circumstances has grown in recent years, new internal data shows, as the sector worries about how it is going to care for an aging population. Data obtained using freedom of information laws shows how much money Ontario spends every…

Michael Harrington never thought his art was something that would be subject to tariffs at the Canada-U.S. border. The Ottawa-based narrative painter has been working with galleries and dealers to show and sell his work full time for roughly three decades. He said the industry has felt like a rollercoaster from the 2008 recession to the COVID-19…

The family of a student pilot who died in a mid-air collision in Steinbach last summer is shattered to hear two people are dead after another plane crash near Kisbey, Sask. on Friday evening. A Cessna 172 was on a night flight from Regina back to Steinbach, Man., but didn’t arrive as scheduled, according to…

Prime Minister Mark Carney and French President Emmanuel Macron are holding a symbolic meeting on an archipelago 20 kilometres off the southern coast of Newfoundland on Sunday, in what both countries say is a show of unity and mutual respect. The two leaders will hold a working lunch and attend a wreath-laying ceremony in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon,…

Canada looms over Lance Thrailkill’s office as a dead, stuffed bird. Mounted above the Texas manufacturer’s desk, a Canada goose, flanked by a mallard and four deer heads, fixes a glassy stare on the room. An open bottle of rye whiskey sits on the floor below. It is a fitting backdrop for a conversation about…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size One of the new Northlander trains ordered by the Ford government to restart rail service to northern Ontario has been out of commission for two months, since it crashed into a tow truck near Bracebridge, Ont. In early July, during a testing and commissioning run, one of…

Descrease article font size Increase article font size Several Canadian police forces are reporting intermittent 911 outages Thursday morning, with some indicating service has been restored. Ontario Provincial Police said it has received reports across the province and is urging anyone requiring emergency assistance to call its fully operational non-emergency line at 1-888-310-1122. Nova Scotia Emergency…