Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Canada’s pollsters are losing their watchdog. Canadian public opinion and market research firms are vowing to create a new oversight body after the Market Research and Intelligence Asso...

RED DEER, Alta. - Mounties in central Alberta are looking for a van stolen from a funeral home that had a body inside. RCMP say the van was in a parking lot outside the Red Deer business when it was t...

LONGUEUIL, Que. - The leader of the surging Coalition avenir Quebec is turning to a two-time defeated Parti Quebecois candidate to win a riding that has been a PQ stronghold for 33 years. Martyne Prev...

FLIN FLON, Man. - Two women have been charged with inciting hatred after someone proposed having a “shoot a Indian day” on social media in northern Manitoba. RCMP say the women, along with...

WINNIPEG - The culprit wasn’t a cheese lover, but a reward for his capture may go to someone who is. A cheese store in Winnipeg is offering free fromage for a year to the person who can identify...

COMOX, B.C. - A lone killer whale that moved into a Comox, B.C., harbour more than a week ago is thrilling crowds on the local waterfront with a swimming and leaping spectacle as it patrols its new hu...

MONTREAL - Quebec’s chief electoral office says it is looking into an erotic company’s seduction marketing campaign timed around the October election. On a list of booked political party n...

OTTAWA - It’s been more than two years since work began on revising the controversial study guide for Canada’s citizenship test, but the federal government says it needs more time to work ...

KILLARNEY, Ont. - While heavy grey smoke from a nearby forest fire hung in the air, Donna Butson packed a bag of clothes and walked in her backyard with tears running from her eyes. She is one of many...

OTTAWA - Canada’s continental partners are simply trying to work through difficult bilateral sticking points on NAFTA, federal insiders insist, even as the Canadian government appears to have be...