Category Archives: Canada

Halifax’s sweeping smoking ban began Monday with a city spokesperson saying it stems in part from citizen dislike of encountering clouds of marijuana vapours in public areas. The rules making it...

HALIFAX - A lawyer is calling for a judicial review after a complaint about the alleged misconduct of two Halifax police officers was investigated twice and dismissed both times. Benjamin Perryman, a ...

VANCOUVER - Enbridge Inc. says it has begun construction of a temporary access road to the site of a natural gas pipeline explosion in Prince George, B.C. In a news release issued Sunday the company s...

VANCOUVER - In Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic, “Alien,” the crew of the Nostromo begin a voyage unknowingly carrying a new being along with them. Thirty-nine years later, Todd and Nicol...

TORONTO - Longtime Liberal politician and former cabinet minister Donald Macdonald died on Sunday at the age of 86, his family said. His daughter Sonja Macdonald said he died in his sleep at his Toron...

OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is opening a new front in his party’s fight against the revamped NAFTA deal, saying he would have done better than Justin Trudeau. The United States is...

OTTAWA - Canada’s new law legalizing recreational cannabis goes into force on Wednesday. Here are five things about what’s legal and what’s not under this historic piece of legislati...

MONTREAL - For many Montrealers, the sound of coins dropping into a fare box or the sight of an original smurf-blue-and-white subway car brings back memories of past commutes and long hours on the roa...

ANTIGONISH, N.S. - A group of students is set to launch a petition that demands St. Francis Xavier University strengthen its sexual violence policy, saying an apology from the school’s president...

VANCOUVER - One of the first questions chef Travis Petersen asks guests as they arrive to his supper club at a semi-secret Vancouver location is how they would gauge their cannabis tolerance. The 34-y...