Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Canada and the United Kingdom are hosting a “coal-free day” at the United Nations climate talks in Katowice, Poland, a city built on coal mining. Poland relies on coal for almost ...

TORONTO - Shoppers Drug Mart has been granted a licence to sell medical marijuana online. Health Canada’s list of authorized cannabis sellers and producers has been updated to reflect that the p...

TORONTO - There was no winning ticket for the $60 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. However, 14 of the 42 Maxmillion prizes of $1 million each that were up for grabs were claimed...

MONTREAL - New Brunswick Premier Blaine Higgs remained optimistic Friday that, someday, a pipeline would be built to bring western crude oil to ports in his region for transport overseas. But the Queb...

OTTAWA - Canada is committed to signing onto the United Nations pact on migration, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen says, despite angry protest from right-wing political activists both here and abroa...

OTTAWA - Canada’s justice minister is instructing federal prosecutors in the North that they should no longer prosecute anyone for not disclosing their HIV status to a sex partner where there is...

VANCOUVER - An advocate for maintaining British Columbia’s electoral system as it is questions whether residents really care about reform, given voter turnout figures released on the final day o...

OTTAWA - As details of American allegations against a Chinese executive were revealed Friday in a Vancouver court, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Canada’s ambassador in Beijing ...

REGINA - A one-time player with the CFL Saskatchewan Roughriders has been sentenced to one year in jail for assaulting his former girlfriend. Former defensive back Justin Cox pleaded guilty in Septemb...

TORONTO - The Canadian Lacrosse Association is the latest domestic sport federation to consider dropping the term ‘midget’ from its youth category classification system. The move comes aft...