Category Archives: Canada

YELLOWKNIFE - Wildfires continued to disrupt communication services Thursday in the Northwest Territories while crews braced for a tough two days fighting the blaze threatening the capital city of Yel...

OTTAWA - The federal privacy watchdog and some of his global counterparts are urging the largest social media companies to prevent bulk extraction of personal details from their websites. In a joint s...

The Transportation Safety Board of Canada is warning about the risks of fires going unnoticed on locomotives and setting wildfires, citing dozens of on-board blazes in a report into an incident two ye...

WASHINGTON - The oceanfront home on Maui's western shore sits unscathed, family car in the driveway, its pristine red roof and well-tended yard an oasis of hope on a bleak landscape of ash and destruc...

OTTAWA - House leaders for the main federal parties have been working together this summer to make a public inquiry on foreign interference happen, as they put aside partisan jabs that dominated Parli...

OTTAWA - Azerbaijan's foreign ministry argues Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister Mlanie Joly is undermining peace in the Nagorno-Karabakh region by referring to the area with the name used by Armenian ...

LAVAL, Que. - A Montreal-area company has come up with a novel - if extreme - way to boost employee happiness: buying them a private island. The 30 workers at data services company Mon Technicien are ...

Fran Forsberg fought years ago for a gender marker to be removed from her child's birth certificate. Now up against the Saskatchewan Party government's pronoun and naming changes in schools, she says ...

A clean energy think tank says Alberta's pause on approvals for new renewable energy projects is affecting 118 projects worth $33 billion. The Pembina Institute says those projects would create enough...

OTTAWA - Ukraine is calling on Canada to help it sell a peace plan with Russia to developing countries who have taken a neutral stance on Moscow's invasion. Ukrainian Foreign Affairs Minister Dmytro K...