Category Archives: Canada

HOUSTON - A so-called robot brothel a Canadian company said it wants to open in Houston is getting pushback from local officials and community groups, with the mayor saying the city is reviewing its o...

WASHINGTON - A look at some of the central characters in Thursday’s U.S. Supreme Court confirmation drama in Washington, where Christine Blasey Ford detailed her allegations of sexual assault in...

VANCOUVER - The BC Coroners Service says completed investigations of 872 overdose fatalities show more than half of those who died had been diagnosed with a mental health disorder or had evidence of b...

TORONTO - A government decision to strip Canadian citizenship from an elderly man, who argued he was forced as a teenager to join a Nazi death squad, was reasonable, a Federal Court judge ruled on Thu...

OTTAWA - The federal Conservatives say the New Brunswick election results have exposed vulnerabilities in the Liberals’ Atlantic Canada fortress - and they’re optimistic they can make a po...

VANCOUVER - Amazon has announced plans to open a new Metro Vancouver shipping warehouse on Tsawwassen First Nation land in Delta, B.C. Amazon spokesperson Lauren Lynch said Thursday that the 41,800-sq...

A man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a 12-year-old girl in Ontario 10 years ago has been denied parole. The Parole Board of Canada turned down Stanley Tippett’s request for day and full pa...

RIVIERE-DU-LOUP, Que. - Coalition Avenir Quebec Leader Francois Legault was forced to backtrack Thursday after responding with an emphatic “yes” to a woman asking if he would stand strong ...

HALIFAX - The Nova Scotia government’s 12 appointments to a new provincial advisory council on education have been announced, three weeks after the school year has started. The Liberal governmen...

MONTREAL - The Quebec government has just spent $1.6 million to replace the word “Amerindian” and modify other Indigenous content in history textbooks that had been introduced only two yea...