Category Archives: Canada

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - More than 200 exhausted passengers were left stranded and frustrated in St. John’s on Wednesday after a flight from Montreal to Germany made an emergency stop. A represe...

MONTREAL - A Muslim candidate who had an election sign shot up last week says he has stopped campaigning in his Quebec City riding after being informed by police of a new threat. Ali Dahan, who is run...

VICTORIA - A former Victoria police chief “caught in a web of untruths” was handed unprecedented disciplinary action Wednesday after a review found Frank Elsner committed eight acts of mis...

TORONTO - Ontario residents will be able to smoke recreational cannabis wherever the smoking of tobacco is permitted, the Progressive Conservative government said Wednesday, loosening rules establishe...

VANCOUVER - A natural occurrence is behind the unusual deaths of about 40 starlings that plummeted to the ground in Delta, B.C., earlier this month. When Vancouver resident Kevin Beech witnessed the b...

MONTREAL - The European trade commissioner says no timelines have been reached for full ratification of the Canada-EU free trade accord. Cecilia Malmstrom says prolonged internal procedures among some...

It is the most corrosive wedge issue in Canada’s only officially bilingual province: language. Largely dormant for more than 20 years, the schism between French- and English-speaking New Brunswi...

MONTREAL - Most young people turned away by a bar doorman try their luck elsewhere, but a Quebec man took his case to the human rights commission and has been awarded $500 in damages. Marc-Olivier Mig...

VANCOUVER - The regulatory body for engineers in British Columbia is alleging negligence or unprofessional conduct against three engineers after the 2014 collapse of a tailings dam at the Mount Polley...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appeared to play down Canada’s bid for a UN Security Council seat, saying Wednesday that winning would not be not an end in itself. Securing a temporary se...