Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Jimmy’s Cannabis will be opening its doors to the public for the first time on Oct. 17 - but it’s still not clear whether there will be any pot products on its shelves. The Saska...

HALIFAX - An emergency intercom in the jail unit of a young Halifax man who died of a methadone overdose had been improperly disabled by guards who regarded it as a nuisance, according to a correction...

TORONTO - A Canadian group that pushed for change in the country’s screen industry amid the #MeToo movement is taking matters into its own hands after seeing a lack of action. Actresses Mia Kirs...

VANCOUVER - Doctors with opposing views on whether medical marijuana should be prescribed for various conditions agree on one thing: their profession is ill-prepared to deal with patients asking for a...

TORONTO - A ticket sold in Ontario claimed the $5 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. And the draw’s guaranteed $1 million prize went to a ticket holder on the Prairies. Th...

WINNIPEG - A Progressive Conservative member of the Manitoba legislature says he has no intention of stepping down after reportedly making inappropriate comments to a woman who works for the partyR...

MONTREAL - Filling the reservoirs of Quebec’s hydroelectric dams has sometimes caused small earthquakes - a process that doesn’t seem to have occurred elsewhere in Canada, according to a s...

VANCOUVER - Enbridge Inc. says it will begin cleaning up the site of a natural gas pipeline explosion in Prince George, B.C., but the company says it does not have a timeline for how long the task wil...

Toronto police are investigating an alleged arson at a hotel temporarily housing asylum seekers amid concerns raised by an immigrant services organization about anti-refugee sentiment circulating onli...

MONTREAL - A Quebec City university is unrolling a new sexual violence policy that includes a ban on intimate relationships between teachers and their students. Universite Laval’s policy also in...