Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The shadow of a new Cold War hung heavy Tuesday as the commander of North America’s early-warning system urged Canada and the U.S. to get on with upgrading the continent’s aging d...

REGINA - Saskatchewan's attorney general says he has no doubt the province’s constitutional challenge of Ottawa’s imposition of a carbon tax will end up in the Supreme Court of Canada. Don...

MONTREAL - Quebec prosecutors are working with the RCMP on the possibility of new criminal charges against SNC-Lavalin tied to a contract to refurbish Montreal’s Jacques Cartier Bridge, court do...

TORONTO - The University of Toronto is honouring one of its researchers who discovered a long-lost Mesopotamian queen using books alone. Tracy L. Spurrier, a PhD candidate in the department of Near an...

Wondering what your city’s climate will be like in a few decades? Look south - about 1,000 kilometres south, says an unusual new study published Tuesday. That’s the average distance betwee...

SHERBROOKE, Que. - After ballooning costs prompted New Brunswick to abandon the 2021 Francophonie Games, Sherbrooke, Que., has agreed to step in as host as long as spending can be kept under control. ...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - An expert on cellphone towers says the chances are “very small” that Richard Oland’s cell phone was still in his Saint John office when it received a final text me...

OTTAWA - The Liberal chair of the House of Commons justice committee is open to probing whether the Prime Minister’s Office tried to influence the former justice minister not to proceed with a p...

OTTAWA - The Public Prosecution Service of Canada says it never sought or received instructions from the government over the breach-of-trust case against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman. Norman’s legal...

OTTAWA - A snapshot of the first large group of Syrian refugees arriving in Canada finds those the government sponsored are less educated, less likely to speak English or French and had more trouble f...