Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - A Quebec-based aid group offering controversial homeopathic therapies in Honduras will no longer receive funding from the federal government after the 2019-20 fiscal year, Global Affairs Ca...

OTTAWA - The Canadian Forces are considering whether to recruit elite special-forces soldiers straight off the street rather than forcing them to follow the traditional route of first spending several...

MONTREAL - Cuban authorities have backed off a threat to seize the last surviving St. Lawrence River schooner, which ran aground on a beach in the Caribbean country on Jan. 27. But the danger remains ...

QUEBEC - Martin Prud’homme, the chief of Quebec’s provincial police, has been temporarily suspended pending an investigation into an allegation he committed criminal offences. Public Secur...

HUMBOLDT, Sask. - The rebuilt Humboldt Broncos hockey team is heading to the playoffs. The Saskatchewan Junior Hockey League team was devastated after its bus and a transport truck collided at a rural...

OTTAWA - Vice-Admiral Mark Norman’s lawyer is threatening to call Gerald Butts and Privy Council clerk Michael Wernick to testify in open court if they don’t produce a series of documents ...

OTTAWA - Gerald Butts, a longtime friend of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and until recently his principal secretary, gave this written statement to the House of Commons justice committee as he began ...

Canola prices have taken a hit in the wake of China’s decision to block certain Canadian imports, a move that has created a logistical headache for exporters reliant on the key overseas market. ...

OTTAWA - The last developments at the House of Commons justice committee, holding hearings Wednesday on the SNC-Lavalin affair (all times local): 4:50 p.m. The Liberal majority voted to debate calling...

PARKSVILLE, B.C. - A two-year-old tabby cat on Vancouver Island is recovering from a leg amputation after someone shot it with a pellet gun. The BC SPCA says the male cat, named Onyx, was targeted rec...