Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - A major shift in United States pharmaceutical policy allowing for the importation of drugs from Canada is creating fears about future drug shortages in this country. The U.S. Food and Drug Ad...

OTTAWA - Former conflict of interest and ethics commissioner Mary Dawson has died. The commissioner's office posted a statement on its website today announcing it is saddened to learn of Dawson's deat...

FREDERICTON - The chief justice of New Brunswick's Court of King's Bench is apologizing to two men who served lengthy prison sentences for a murder they didn't commit. In a written decision issued a d...

RAWDON, Que. - Quebec provincial police say two people died overnight in a residential fire in Rawdon, Que., about 60 kilometres north of Montreal. Police spokesperson lose Cossette says emergency ser...

Here is a roundup of stories from The Canadian Press designed to bring you up to speed on what you need to know today... Initial foreign interference inquiry hearings to weigh confidentiality of infor...

MONTREAL - An unusually mild start to winter in Quebec has discouraged tourists hoping for a winter wonderland, left litter visible on the streets of Montreal and at times diminished traffic to some o...

A pesky invasive plant found in many areas of Yukon could be put to use helping clean contaminated water from mines, research suggests. But the closure of Minto Mine, 240 kilometres north of Whitehors...

WHITEHORSE - An on-call teacher in Yukon who worked at 10 different schools over five years has been charged with possession of child pornography. Yukon Education Minister Jeanie McLean says in a stat...

OTTAWA - A federal inquiry into foreign interference says its initial hearings will help identify ways to make information public, even though much of it will originate from classified documents and s...

GATINEAU, Que. - The Transportation Safety Board of Canada says it is taking part in an investigation by Japanese authorities into a fatal crash on a Tokyo runway that involved two airplanes, includin...