Category Archives: Canada

Here are some key dates in the history of the Trans Mountain pipeline and Kinder Morgan Canada’s efforts to expand its capacity: October 1953: The Trans Mountain pipeline begins shipping oil wit...

HALIFAX - A bilateral health deal that will see Nova Scotia get $286 million over 10 years from Ottawa for home care and mental health was formally signed in Halifax on Thursday. Nova Scotia Health Mi...

MONTREAL - A Quebec coroner says the mummified remains of a baby found hidden in the basement ceiling of a Montreal-area home was most likely a hidden pregnancy dating back to the late 1940s. There ar...

SASKATOON - A golf bag sporting the Humboldt Broncos logo as a tribute to the Saskatchewan junior hockey team has been auctioned off for $19,000. Canadian golfer Alena Sharp had the bag made for last ...

HALIFAX - The following is a transcript of the final conversations Sept. 2, 1998, involving the crew of ill-fated Swissair Flight 111, air traffic control centres in Moncton, N.B., and Halifax, as wel...

HALIFAX - Here is a chronology of events in the crash of Swissair Flight 111 and its aftermath: Sept. 2, 1998 8:18 p.m. EDT - MD-11 jet starts take-off roll on Runway 13R, John F. Kennedy airport, New...

HALIFAX - “Anyone who was there was involved, even with little things. We were supposed to go down to our wharfs every day and look hard to see if we saw anything … and there was a sense o...

HALIFAX - Some facts and figures about the Sept. 2, 1998, crash of Swissair Flight 111: Type of plane: McDonnell Douglas 11, or MD-11, manufactured by Boeing. Flight route: John F. Kennedy Internation...

FOX POINT, N.S. - Photographs of a cherubic toddler and bright-eyed young woman sit atop Bob Conrad’s well-worn piano, their smiling faces looking out to the site where the veteran fisherman rac...

MONTREAL - Nearly 1,000 kilometres from Washington, where a team of top Canadian negotiators sit in 11th-hour NAFTA discussions, Peter Strebel works under a cloud of concern at the rural Quebec dairy ...