Category Archives: Canada

FREDERICTON - At least one political observer in New Brunswick says the decision by Conservative Leader Blaine Higgs to drop a political bombshell during the first debate of the provincial election ca...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - A British Airways flight to Calgary from London was rerouted to Iqaluit late Wednesday. FlightAware, an online flight tracking tool, shows the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner landed at 7:20...

VANCOUVER - Drug users who didn’t respond well to a reformulated methadone treatment introduced in British Columbia four years ago now have access to a medication that may work as well as the or...

VANCOUVER - A motion before the Vancouver Park Board could mark the next step toward reconciliation with three Vancouver-area First Nations. Commissioners are scheduled to vote Monday on a proposal th...

SASKATOON - One of the Humboldt Broncos hockey players injured in a bus crash that killed 16 people has joined his hometown Western Hockey League team as an assistant to the coaches. The Saskatoon Bla...

OTTAWA - Canada’s new international trade minister is taking a pass on a meeting of his G20 counterparts in Argentina on Friday. Jim Carr was recently shuffled into the portfolio with the main p...

OTTAWA - Canada’s largest licensed producer of medical marijuana says a work stoppage at Canada Post could leave many of its customers without their medications, resulting in some looking for un...

MONTREAL - With its dark grey skin and prominent tusk, the young narwhal stands out from the pod of snowy white belugas it has joined in the St. Lawrence River, some 1,000 kilometres from home. But ag...

SASKATOON - They’re not guaranteeing improved grain transportation by this winter, but Canada’s two biggest railways say they believe new locomotives, hopper cars and extra staff will make...

TORONTO - A growing number of university and college campuses across the country are now fully smoke-free - both indoors and out, says a report by the Canadian Cancer Society released Thursday. The re...