Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - A coalition of rebellious Tim Hortons franchisees is accusing the fast-food giant’s parent company Restaurant Brands International Inc. of trying to sideline the group by refusing to r...

HALIFAX - A former medical student serving a life sentence for murder has been granted a copy of his laptop hard drive, as he represents himself in a court bid to obtain the computer itself. William S...

CROSS LAKE, Man. - Skipper is twice the size of Gilligan, and they’re are always chumming around. The professor is the quiet one. Ginger and Mary Ann might be the best looking. And Thurston Howe...

North America’s largest newsprint producer hopes rare bipartisan political support in the United States will convince the U.S. International Trade Commission to overturn final import duties anno...

TYAUGHTON LAKE, B.C. - Two men are dead an a third is in hospital with serious injuries after a float plane crashed into a British Columbia lake. RCMP say the body of a 29-year-old Langley man was rec...

LODGE BAY, N.L. - Four people are dead after a two-vehicle crash in southern Labrador early Thursday that left no survivors. Road conditions were foggy when two pickup trucks collided head-on at aroun...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - In the 1970s, Aidan O’Hara became known on Newfoundland’s Cape Shore as “the real Irishman” who came to town armed with a recorder, gathering tradition...

TORONTO - The owner of a now defunct Toronto-area restaurant chain has been jailed for 90 days for failing to comply with a government order to pay former employees wages and other money they were owe...

MONTREAL - The sister of jailed blogger Raif Badawi has been arrested in Saudi Arabia, according to Amnesty International. The human rights organization said Samar Badawi was detained earlier this wee...

HALIFAX - The case of a known sex offender charged with aggravated sexual assault and choking after a woman said she was attacked in a Halifax home has been adjourned again. Sem Paul Obed appeared in ...