Category Archives: Canada

MONTPELIER, Vt. - Deer biologists across northern New England are dusting off their plans for dealing with a fatal disease that has been spreading across North America for a half-century and was recen...

OTTAWA - The world is going to blow past its most stringent climate goal in less than a quarter century unless the political will erupts to act faster and more directly to curb greenhouse gas emission...

TORONTO - Canada’s largest mental health centre has apologized to one of its former psychologists and will pay him more than half a million dollars, years after it published a report that errone...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s rattlesnakes may not get much respect, but scientists are working to change that - and in the process, save a diminishing species. University and government resear...

WINNIPEG - Brian Pallister’s abrupt about-face on a carbon tax came after the Manitoba premier felt like he was being used as a prop by Ottawa, and sources say it was a surprise to most in his o...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Genome sequencing offers patients the potential of speedier, more effective diagnoses and medications. But building a safe and secure system to store people’s unique gen...

ROCKWOOD, Ont. - Two adults and a teenager were killed when a pickup truck collided with a car near Guelph, Ont., provincial police said, noting it was the second highway tragedy in southern Ontario i...

COURTENAY, B.C. - RCMP in British Columbia say a young child has been hospitalized after eating marijuana-infused gummy bear candies she found while in the back seat of a vehicle. Police say the girl&...

ROCKWOOD, Ont. - It’s been a deadly Thanksgiving weekend on the roads in southern Ontario. Provincial police say one person is dead and two others are being treated for life-threatening injuries...

EDMONTON - A man faces charges that include kidnapping with a firearm following an Amber Alert that was issued in Edmonton. But while the alert issued Friday afternoon related to a 14-year-old girl, E...