Category Archives: Canada

LEVIS, Que. - As the Canadian Coast Guard took possession of a new icebreaker at Quebec’s Davie Shipyard Friday, a Davie official warned that the national shipbuilding strategy could be headed f...

FREDERICTON - The 2021 Francophonie Games, expected to attract athletes from around the world, may prove too costly for New Brunswick’s new Tory government. Cost estimates have ballooned to $130...

VANCOUVER - Delegates from British Columbia’s forest industry have concluded what they characterize as a successful trade mission to Asia despite tensions over the arrest of Huawei chief financi...

OTTAWA - With a little over a week before Christmas, Canada Post says it is starting to catch up on parcel deliveries that have been delayed by rotating strikes over the past two months. The Crown cor...

CHARLOTTETOWN - Immigration fraud charges were stayed Friday against two Charlottetown motel owners after it was alleged hundreds of newcomers used their hotel as an address though they didn’t i...

OTTAWA - The Supreme Court of Canada has struck down a law that forced people convicted of crimes to pay surcharges that help victims, saying the mandatory fee amounts to cruel and unusual punishment....

OTTAWA - Tourism Minister Melanie Joly won’t go to China to mark the end of a special year of tourism exchanges, she announced Friday, as relations between the two countries continued to plummet...

Four stories in the news for Friday, Dec. 14 --- SAFETY BOARD TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS AFTER CRASH Canada’s transportation safety board is scheduled to release recommendations today after a plane...

The berries tasted different. The blueberries and cranberries didn’t look the same either. When elders from Fort McKay near Alberta’s oilsands went to their traditional picking areas, thin...

SARNIA, Ont. - A former athlete who trained under one of Canada’s top gymnastics coaches accused him of sexual assault because she was bitter about not achieving her Olympic dreams, the man̵...