Category Archives: Canada

WINNIPEG - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is sounding a cautionary note about the recreational use of marijuana, saying that consuming it could have consequences for Canadians crossing the border into ...

OTTAWA - A member of the Manitoba legislature and former federal cabinet minister is taking a page from Maxime Bernier’s playbook and becoming the leader of a new party. Steven Fletcher has take...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The coast guard says work to remove leaking bulk oil from the decades-old Manolis L shipwreck off Newfoundland is complete. The risky operation in Notre Dame Bay went smoothly...

WASHINGTON - Brian Mulroney says Canada needs to put a little more water in its milk if it expects to make a new NAFTA deal with a hard-bargaining U.S. president whose political fortunes depend heavil...

Stella Bowles has won national science prizes and public service awards. She has a scholarship lined up from Western University, and a book about her work is being published this month. She’s al...

Calgary councillors voted Tuesday to keep the city’s bid for the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games alive, after a draft plan presented to council revealed the total cost of hosting the ga...

SPRINGHILL, N.S. - The last man to emerge from a shattered Nova Scotia mine 60 years ago has died. Herb Pepperdine was 95 years old when he passed away Friday in Springhill, N.S. His obituary says Pep...

TORONTO - Hudson’s Bay Co. has struck a deal to merge its German department stores with its biggest rival in the European market. The Toronto-based retailer, which owns Galeria Kaufhof, announce...

Five stories in the news for Tuesday, Sept. 11 --- FREELAND IN WASHINGTON TO RESUME NAFTA TALKS TODAY Canada and the United States will restart high-level talks today on the North American Free Trade ...

VANCOUVER - Back-to-school buzz only led to worry for a Vancouver father fretting about his daughter’s chances of getting into French immersion - a year before she starts kindergarten. Prokopi K...