Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will hole up with his newly shuffled cabinet for three days next week in Nanaimo, B.C. The retreat, scheduled for Aug. 21-23, marks the first meeting of Trudeau&...

TORONTO - A man accused of killing an elderly stranger by shoving him in front of a Toronto subway train had his case put over to December after a brief court hearing on Tuesday. John Reszetnik, 57, r...

VANCOUVER - The smell of diesel filled the air as crews worked to recover a capsized tugboat that may have spilled as much as 22,000 litres of the fuel in the Fraser River between Vancouver and Richmo...

TORONTO - A pair of Canadian student travellers bemoaning what appeared to be a routine delay aboard their train through Italy instead learned they were just minutes from a disastrous bridge collapse ...

TORONTO - Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto have ranked among the top ten most liveable cities in the world in the latest ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Vienna took the top spot in the annu...

TORONTO - Eighteen-year-old singer Alexander Stewart has played for big crowds and pulled in millions of views on his YouTube videos, but performing a rendition of “Hallelujah” for Prime M...

OTTAWA - Lawyers are getting closer to pinning down dates for the trial phase of a high-profile case involving Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, accused of leaking sensitive information to a Quebec shipyard. ...

SAINT-SIMON, N.B. - There has been another crustacean caper on the East Coast. Police say thieves stole “a large quantity of lobster meat” in New Brunswick’s Acadian Peninsula on Fri...

HALIFAX - Emera Inc. is pulling out of the troubled Cape Sharp Tidal turbine project in the Bay of Fundy. Nova Scotia Power’s parent company announced its decision in a statement released Monday...

HALIFAX - A Halifax man convicted of strangling an off-duty police officer and using a compost bin to dispose of her body will spend at least 13 and a half years in prison, a Nova Scotia Supreme Court...