Category Archives: Canada

THOMPSON, Man. - A railway worker has died and another suffered serious injuries after rescuers spent hours trying to free them from the wreckage of a derailment in northern Manitoba. The Arctic Gatew...

VAUDREUIL-DORION, Que. - On a cloudy Monday in late August, Vivianne Carbonneau fires the ignition on her semi truck bearing the load of both an 80,000-pound trailer and a new job title hitched to her...

MAIDSTONE, Sask. - For a small group of American black families escaping racist Jim Crow laws a century ago, building a church in their new home in Saskatchewan was a priority. Completed in 1912, Shil...

One prominent economist calls it “the elephant in the room” of the New Brunswick election: The coming fiscal reckoning. New Brunswick is what some might call a poor cousin of Confederation...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - It has been called a “boondoggle” - by the man in charge. The Muskrat Falls hydro megaproject, a massive dam and powerhouse harnessing the lower Churchill River ne...

WASHINGTON - Chrystia Freeland was not happy. With trilateral NAFTA talks having been on hiatus for most of the summer, the foreign affairs minister was in Berlin, barely one full day into a week-long...

MONTREAL - Along Montreal’s Saint-Laurent Boulevard are rows of greystone and red-bricked buildings dating from the early 20th century, many of which used to house businesses owned by first-gene...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $16.4 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize went to a ticket holder in Ontario. The jackpot fo...

VANCOUVER - Police in Victoria are looking for a thief who stole a treasured coat from the arms of a visually impaired man. They say the 71-year-old-victim was standing at an intersection early Saturd...

VANCOUVER - Federal New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh will run in an upcoming byelection in British Columbia. A crowd cheered and clapped as Singh formally announced his nomination for the rid...