Category Archives: Canada

VICTORIA - British Columbia NDP Leader David Eby is appealing to Greens for their votes as the provincial election enters its final week, but Green Party Leader Emily Lowan says he is just trying to f...

Training at CFB Wainwright in Alberta is "as real as it can be" to prepare soldiers for combat operations, says a retired Canadian Armed Forces major-general. Four military members were killed, and do...

Canada's military says a grass fire that killed four soldiers and sent scores more to hospital with bad burns was known well beforehand but not considered a threat. Maj.-Gen. Wade Rutland, commander o...

WAINWRIGHT - Prime Minister Mark Carney says four military members were killed and dozens more were seriously injured after a violent, fast-moving fire at CFB Wainwright, a massive military training b...

VANCOUVER - Hedy Fry is no stranger to election nights after more than three decades representing her riding in Vancouver as a Liberal member of Parliament. But election night Saturday, when she watch...

OTTAWA - It's illegal for kids under 18 to buy tobacco products in Canada and there's a movement afoot to make sure today's youth are never allowed to light up a cigarette - even after they come of ag...

WAINWRIGHT - Federal Defence Minister David McGuinty says there are deaths and injuries after an explosion and fire at CFB Wainwright in Alberta. More coming. The Canadian Press

FREDERICTON - Daniel Allain is the new leader of New Brunswick's Progressive Conservative party after taking the majority of ballots in a two-person race. The upbeat former provincial cabinet minister...

CALGARY - An expert on low-carbon transportation says the roughly 1,000 compressed natural gas buses running in Canada are still considered "extremely safe" after one such bus was involved in a deadly...

MONTREAL - More than one in four adults in Greater Montreal experienced poverty at some point between 2016 and 2023, according to a new study suggesting poverty is more widespread than annual statisti...