Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Police in Toronto have made an arrest in an alleged assault on a newspaper photographer in the city’s downtown. It happened last Saturday during a rally at Nathan Phillips Square, a ma...

WINNIPEG - A leader in Winnipeg’s Pakistani community says a city park whose name drew the ire of a Quebec MP has been vandalized. Rashid Ahmed says a sign at Jinnah Park was sawed off from the ...

TORONTO - While hundreds of people have crossed picket lines to attend the first two days of the Canadian National Exhibition on Toronto’s waterfront, others boycotted the event amid labour disp...

VANCOUVER - New evacuation orders have been issued for parts of north-central British Columbia being battered by wildfires, while residents of the region hope for more wind to clear out the smoke. The...

MONTREAL - Quebec liquor board employees say they will hold a second one-day strike on Wednesday - a day before the provincial election campaign kicks off. It’s the second of six strike days the...

MONTREAL - John Allore last saw his 19-year-old sister Theresa on a foggy day in the fall of 1978, as she boarded a train in Saint John, N.B., to head home to Quebec after Thanksgiving weekend. Allore...

MONTREAL - Former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan was remembered by Canadian politicians on Saturday as a friend of Canada and tireless advocate for peace around the world. Prime Minister ...

FREDERICTON - 3:35 p.m. The regimental funeral for two police officers killed in the line of duty has officially ended. Hearses carrying the bodies of Constables Robb Costello and Sara Burns have pull...

WINNIPEG - Melissa Stevenson was just starting her career 18 years ago when a summer position at the Indigenous Family Centre in Winnipeg connected her to a youngster named Tina Fontaine. The social w...

FREDERICTON - An emotional afternoon in Fredericton has drawn to a close, although last Friday’s tragedy still hangs over the New Brunswick capital after a regimental funeral was held for two co...