Category Archives: Canada

When a wildfire roared toward Summerland, B.C., staff from the Interior Wildlife Rehabilitation Society had to evacuate about 30 animals from the facility in an hour. Eva Hartmann, founder of the sanc...

OTTAWA - Former chief of the defence staff Rick Hillier has been tapped as the National Bank of Canada's strategic defence adviser. Hillier, who spent more than 35 years with the Canadian Armed Forces...

A story published by The Canadian Press on Aug. 6, incorrectly reported that Nova Scotia was planning to ban children under 14 from riding electric scooters and bikes in the fall. The story was based ...

An Ontario jeweller accused of laundering hundreds of millions of dollars in drug money for a violent criminal network allegedly run by former Olympian Ryan Wedding will not fight his extradition to t...

OTTAWA - Canada could lose 102,000 jobs if the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement on trade breaks down, a new report warns. The report, prepared for the Canadian American Business Council by Oxford Economic...

Gordon Mellish says he has saved at least 10 people using CPR after being trained in the life-saving technique, but giving mouth-to-mouth to an otter pup was a completely different animal. Mellish, a ...

TORONTO - Ontario's fire crews are making progress fighting wildfires, the minister of natural resources said Tuesday, with dozens extinguished in the last two weeks and far fewer burning out of contr...

OTTAWA - Tens of thousands of Canadians have signed a petition calling for U.S. President Donald Trump's representative in Ottawa to be kicked out of the country. The online petition, which is set to ...

OTTAWA - Environment Canada launched a new, more targeted thunderstorm and tornado warning system this week to address "alert fatigue" and cut down on the number of weather alerts Canadians get on the...

MONTREAL - Skywatchers in Quebec and beyond will get a unique show this week, as the Perseid meteor shower coincides with a partial solar eclipse. The Astrolab astronomy centre at the Mont-Mgantic, Qu...