Category Archives: Canada

Five stories in the news for Friday, Sept. 7 --- MANHUNT CONTINUES IN ST. CATHARINES Police searched into the night for two armed men following a daytime shooting in St. Catharines, Ont., on Thursday ...

HALIFAX - A Halifax man who strangled an off-duty police officer and used a compost bin to dispose of her body is appealing his sentence, calling it “manifestly excessive.” Christopher Gar...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada will formally apologize in November for turning away a boat of German Jews seeking asylum in 1939, which led to the deaths of more than 200 people. T...

TORONTO - Chief Wahoo will not be back in Canada. The Cleveland Indians altered their jerseys ahead of a four-game series that began in Toronto on Thursday, removing the controversial caricature of a ...

REGINA - The RCMP’s official change of command ceremony was held Thursday at Depot Division in Regina. The ceremony marks the symbolic handover of authority to Commissioner Brenda Lucki from out...

VANCOUVER - An RCMP officer who killed a man during a confrontation in British Columbia has launched a lawsuit against the provincial police watchdog alleging the investigation that cleared him of any...

VANCOUVER - The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says an attempt to inject a sickly orca whale with an deworming medicine has failed. In an update on Saturday, NOAA confirmed the w...

MONTREAL - Canadian astronaut David Saint-Jacques says last week’s air leak at the International Space Station was like a wake-up call. A top Russian space official says it was traced to a small...

CALGARY - Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says the federal government has promised a fast-track timeline to resume construction on the stalled Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. “The prime...

TORONTO - Ontario’s new government will uphold a promise to address hospital overcrowding but any action taken must have fiscal restraint in mind, the province’s health minister said Thurs...