Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government proposed new regulations Friday that would lift a ban on men who have sex with other men from donating their sperm anonymously to Canadians struggling with infertility....

OTTAWA - The Remembrance Day poppy has entered the digital age. The Royal Canadian Legion launched a digital version of the distinctive red flower Friday, which it says can be customized, shared onlin...

A musician and teacher who served for 50 years as director of the well-known Cape Breton choir Men of the Deeps is being remembered for preserving the culture of coal miners through song. John (Jack) ...

HALIFAX - The company hoping to bring a CFL team to Halifax has proposed Shannon Park, along the east side of the city’s harbour, as the site for a 24,000-seat stadium. The proposal from Maritim...

COLEMAN, Alta. - A swath of land in southwestern Alberta has been protected and named in honour of former premier Jim Prentice. The Jim Prentice Wildlife Corridor, which is in the Crowsnest Pass, is r...

OTTAWA - The decade-long ordeal of Ottawa academic Hassan Diab, suspected by French authorities of being involved in a deadly bombing in Paris, showed no signs of ending on Friday after an appeal cour...

WOODSTOCK, N.B. - RCMP say two young men from Nova Scotia were arrested Friday afternoon at a border crossing in western New Brunswick. Police say the incident began around 10:15 a.m. local time, when...

CALGARY - Swoop is resuming all scheduled flights to the U.S. after receiving its final operating approval. The discount subsidiary of WestJet Airlines says flights that have been cancelled will resum...

OTTAWA - Vancouver and Niagara Falls, Ont., were added to the list of cities hit by postal disruptions this week as more Canadian Union of Postal Workers members walked off the job as part of rotating...

HALIFAX - Mi’kmaq poet Rita Joe once wrote that the “beauty of my people” had been forgotten. But that is hardly the case in the city of Halifax. A ceremony was held Friday on the wa...