Category Archives: Canada
Coalition Avenir Quebec boasts more women than men in election campaign
MONTREAL - The Coalition Avenir Quebec has boasted that it will have more women than men running in the provincial election campaign - a big change for the party, which opinion polls suggest is leadin...
Aug 25, 2018

Students spend summer digging up, preserving 300-year-old human remains
LOUISBOURG, N.S. - Young researchers are working against the clock to dig up 300-year-old human remains before they’re washed away by the sea - and the project lead says what they found so far c...
Aug 25, 2018

Humboldt Broncos back on ice for new season with training camp underway
HUMBOLDT, Sask. - As head coach Nathan Oystrick skated around the ice barking orders at his new players on Friday night, the Humboldt Broncos looked like any other junior hockey team in training camp....
Aug 25, 2018

Archivist helps families learn fate of missing residential school children
Nellie Hardisty was just a little girl from Moose Factory in Ontario when she disappeared into the morass of Indian residential schools and associated hospitals. She died of turberculosis at the age o...
Aug 25, 2018
Passengers on grounded Arctic cruise ship to fly out, ice and weather permitting
KUGAARUK, Nunavut - Dozens of passengers from an Arctic cruise ship that ran aground last week were expected to be flown back south Saturday night, weather and sea ice permitting. “We’re c...
Aug 25, 2018
Police say woman whose alleged abduction was caught on video is safe
RICHMOND HILL, Ont. - Police north of Toronto say a woman whose alleged abduction was caught on video has been found “in good health.” York regional police have also identified a suspect t...
Aug 25, 2018
No winning ticket for Friday night's $24 million Lotto Max jackpot
TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $24 million jackpot in Friday night’s Lotto Max draw. That means the jackpot for the next draw on Aug. 31 will grow to approximately $33 million. The...
Aug 25, 2018

Scheer not worried about rifts in party as Conservative convention wraps
HALIFAX - It began with a maverick MP throwing a hand grenade into the party he once tried to lead and ended with contentious debates on abortion. The three-day Conservative policy convention in Halif...
Aug 25, 2018
Fighting fire with defiance: Some stay home in B.C. to protect homes, property
Rise Johansen is among those in British Columbia who has decided against obeying an evacuation order because of a wildfire, choosing instead to remain behind in Takysie to help those who are remaining...
Aug 25, 2018
Passenger vessel runs aground in the Far North; Coast Guard responding
KUGAARUK, Nunavut - A pair of Canadian Coast Guard icebreakers are responding after a passenger ship ran aground in the Far North. The coast guard says in a tweet that the vessel ran aground near Kuga...
Aug 24, 2018