Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $16.7 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. That means the jackpot for the next draw on Mar. 15 will grow to approximately $25 million. T...

VANCOUVER - A commercial fisherman who tossed a small explosive into water teeming with sea lions off the coast of British Columbia says he wasn’t trying to hurt the creatures. The video prompte...

MISSISSAUGA, Ont. - JTI-Macdonald Corp. says it’s been granted creditor protection following a Quebec Court of Appeal decision upholding a landmark judgment ordering it and two other companies t...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government marked International Women’s Day on Friday by touting its collection of measures designed to support - and boost the number of - female entrepreneurs. But a year ...

QUEBEC - Lawyers for the gunman who killed six worshippers in a Quebec City mosque announced Friday they are appealing the killer’s sentence of life in prison with no possibility of parole for 4...

ROSSER, Man. - Federal Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer says he will not be introducing a motion of non-confidence against Justin Trudeau despite saying the prime minister has lost the moral authorit...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba Premier Brian Pallister says his long-promised cut to the provincial sales tax will take effect July 1, even if the opposition delays the legislation that enacts it. Opposition par...

VANCOUVER - Facebook should ban posts by so-called anti-vaxxers in order to protect children against measles and other contagious diseases, says a British Columbia mother who launched a petition urgin...

TORONTO - The accessibility law that took effect in Ontario 14 years ago and has served as a blueprint for similar legislation in other parts of Canada has fallen well short of its goals and continues...

ROSSER, Man. - Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer says he didn’t hear a man mention a widely debunked conspiracy theory while answering questions at a town hall earlier this week. The feder...