Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - A Vancouver-based mining company says soft copper and equity markets have combined to undermine the sale of its property in central Yukon, so it plans to shut the Minto Mine until a better...

OTTAWA - Border Security Minister Bill Blair is launching a national public conversation about whether Canada should ban handguns and assault weapons. Blair announced today he will lead a series of pu...

TORONTO - Employers are required to do what they can to accommodate medical marijuana users as well as those addicted to pot but that doesn’t give employees carte blanche to show up at work ston...

VANCOUVER - In a story published Wednesday, The Canadian Press said the Heiltsuk incurred costs associated with testing and its investigation in the millions of dollars. In fact, the First Nation says...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named Ontario lawyer Josee Forest-Niesing and Mi’kmaq leader Brian Francis from Prince Edward Island as the newest members of the Senate. The two are t...

The mother of a toddler swept into a raging river during flash flooding in Ontario earlier this year has been charged in her son’s death, police said Thursday. Ontario Provincial Police said the...

FORT PROVIDENCE, N.W.T. - It’s where elders hunt and children hear their stories by the campfire. And after a deal signed Thursday between First Nations and the federal government it’s lik...

CALGARY - A man who strangled his wife and concealed her body in the family home after enduring what he described as years of domestic abuse has been given an additional three years in prison. Allan S...

TORONTO - The first time Karen Kain visited Russia, it was 1973 and the Soviet Union was facing major food shortages. The Canadian ballet star needed sufficient sustenance, as she and Frank Augustyn w...

HALIFAX - A British marine has testified that a woman who alleges she was gang raped by at least three sailors made a sexual comment when he knocked on the door of a noisy barracks room at a Halifax-a...