Lac-Mégantic

Justin Trudeau says wealthy families don’t need the Conservative government’s enhanced universal child care benefit and, to underscore the point, he’s giving his own family’s windfall to charity.

One year after a runaway train destroyed part of Lac-Megantic, echoes of the disaster still haunt people in the region.

Canada rules controversial rail cars carrying flammable liquids must be upgraded or removed from the tracks.

Every year Epoch Times takes a look back at the biggest news stories that grabbed the attention of the entire country. This year, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford made headlines around the world and a handful of senators managed to make abolishing the Senate an idea with traction. Like most years, the big news is often the most tragic, such as natural disasters or an iconic business gone awry, but at least we had a social media juggernaut of an astronaut to lighten the mood.

Intact says it has taken a $257million hit as a result of covering insurable damages in the recent severe weather events.