Category Archives: Canada

QUESNEL, B.C. - A wildfire in British Columbia has prompted an evacuation alert for some residents of the city of Quesnel, meaning they must be prepared to leave at a moment’s notice. The Caribo...

A timeline of events in Friday’s deadly shooting in Fredericton. All times in Atlantic time: 7:07 a.m. Local resident David MacCoubrey is awakened by the sound of three gunshots just outside his...

TORONTO - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau honoured the victims of the Fredericton shooting during a visit to Toronto’s Greektown - the scene of another rampage last month - to help open a popular ...

OTTAWA - Officers who rushed to the scene of a deadly shooting in Fredericton likely saved the lives of others, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday as Canadians reeled from news of early-morning...

CALGARY - Utility workers have managed to track down the source of a mysterious gas-like odour that’s been lingering in a Calgary Dairy Queen restaurant for about three years. Owner Sujad Bandal...

VANCOUVER - Experts attempting an unprecedented rescue effort to save an endangered killer whale off the West Coast have managed to inject the young orca with antibiotics. A team set out Thursday and ...

LAVAL, Que. - A Montreal-area man has been arraigned on a charge of aggravated assault in connection with a sucker-punch attack outside a daycare last month that was captured on surveillance video. In...

OTTAWA - The national unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent in July. Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities. It cautions, howe...

OTTAWA - Canada’s national unemployment rate was 5.8 per cent in July. Here are the jobless rates last month by province (numbers from the previous month in brackets): - Newfoundland and Labrado...

OTTAWA - The economy generated 54,100 net new jobs last month and saw its unemployment rate fall - but the headline improvements overshadowed weaker details: a rush of new part-time, public sector pos...