Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - As David Saint-Jacques makes final preparations for the first manned Russian rocket launch since last month’s near-catastrophic Soyuz failure, the Canadian astronaut is bracing for so...

OTTAWA - Conservative MP David Yurdiga says people suffering from disabilities that worsen and ease, like his wife and daughter, are not treated fairly under Canadian law and he wants to change that. ...

OTTAWA - The number of hate crimes reported to Canadian police jumped sharply last year after years of small increases, with new statistics showing incidents targeting blacks, Jews and Muslims account...

HALIFAX - Canada’s largest and most lucrative lobster fishery is slated to get started Saturday off Nova Scotia’s southwest coast, where about 5,200 fishermen are geared up for what is exp...

OTTAWA - Canada is reconsidering its diplomatic presence in Cuba following another unexplained illness among embassy staff. Government representatives will travel to Havana next week to begin a review...

OTTAWA - “What we would expect is the prime minister to do everything in his power to ensure that there’s a free and fair negotiation. But instead what he’s doing is bringing in the ...

WHITEHORSE - A family at the centre of a fatal grizzly bear attack northeast of Mayo, Yukon, were experienced trappers, says a friend who had known them for years. Brian Melanson, who heads the Yukon ...

OTTAWA - Asylum-seekers who entered Canada irregularly last year will cost federal organizations $340 million - an amount projected to balloon to almost $400 million for migrants who arrive in 2019, t...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Canada will sanction 17 Saudi Arabian nationals linked to the October killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday - a move...

TORONTO - A Progressive Conservative legislator who publicly denounced Ontario’s decision to eliminate the independent office of the French-language services commissioner and a planned French-la...