Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - The $5 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw was won by a ticket holder in British Columbia, while the draw’s guaranteed $1 million prize was claimed by a ticket hol...

OTTAWA - As the frigid air of an Ottawa winter howled outside in January 2013, Jody Wilson-Raybould stood at the centre of a mass of national media, trying to be a peacemaker as First Nations chiefs f...

LONGUEUIL, Que. - Officials say three members of the same family died and 11 others were injured after a fire broke out in an apartment in Longueuil, Que. The fire broke out in an apartment building w...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $10 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. The jackpot for the next draw on Feb. 15 will be approximately $16 million. The Canadian Press

VICTORIA - The two top officials in British Columbia’s legislature deny allegations of overspending and questionable expenses in written responses to a report by the Speaker. A communications fi...

QUEBEC - Some quotes related to the sentencing of Alexandre Bissonnette on Friday for the Quebec City mosque murders. ___ “We know unfortunately in our society many people … say Islamophob...

MONTREAL - The federal government is objecting to a Quebec proposal that it be allowed to determine where in the province immigrants settle as a condition of their gaining permanent residency in the c...

The sentencing Friday of Alexandre Bissonnette in Quebec City and Bruce McArthur in Toronto in two horrific multiple murder cases has again shone light on a provision of the Criminal Code allowing kil...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has created a working group to determine the most effective way to ban conversion therapy. Health Minister Sarah Hoffman says the practice is both damaging and hatefu...

OTTAWA - Indigenous Services Minister Seamus O’Regan says he will visit a northern Ontario First Nation to see its housing situation at the request of the community’s chief. O’Regan ...