Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Several health organizations are urging the federal government to bring down nicotine use among Canadians to less than five per cent of the population by 2045, as vaping among youth rises. Le...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba's police watchdog is investigating a man's death after he allegedly slammed into a car and held a teen hostage in a burning home. Winnipeg police say the chaotic scene involving a ...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is stepping up his attack on Liberal policies with a call for an emergency parliamentary debate on the economy. Statistics Canada said Friday the economy ...

Christine Nayler spent only four days with her newborn daughter after giving birth at a hospital north of Newmarket, Ont., in 1982, before her baby was taken away from her. Then a 15-year-old expectan...

HALIFAX - Damian Lidgard has spent 30 years studying and photographing wildlife on Nova Scotia's Sable Island, and hopes his forthcoming book will give people an appreciation for the beauty and hardin...

The federal government has ordered a financial audit into transactions and activities at a landmark Indigenous languages office after receiving anonymous complaints. Canadian Heritage didn't elaborate...

OTTAWA - A lawyer who represented First Nations in a class-action lawsuit against Ottawa says his clients still have not been consulted on promised clean drinking water legislation - even though the l...

OTTAWA - The race to build Canada's next submarine fleet is on its final lap as the federal government evaluates two rival bids for the lucrative contract. The two qualified bidders, South Korea's Han...

CALGARY, ALBERTA, CANADA - The wife of an Alberta man gunned down in a roadside shooting east of Calgary shared an emotional hug with the prosecutor after a jury found two men guilty of second-degree ...

MONTREAL - Paola Lara has followed the Montreal Victoire since their first game 2 1/2 years ago. On that nail-biting January day in 2024, they vanquished the Ottawa Charge in an away game - just as th...