Category Archives: Canada

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - An Alberta player with the Western Hockey League who was seriously burned while hanging out at a backyard firepit is out of intensive care. Family of Ryan Vandervlis say the Lethbr...

TORONTO - Ontario’s trade minister will travel to Washington this week to defend the province’s auto industry at a U.S. Department of Commerce hearing. Jim Wilson said he will be speaking ...

HALIFAX - A Federal Court judge has set aside a decision to refer the case of Abdoul Abdi to a deportation hearing, saying Ottawa “blatantly” ignored the Somali child refugee’s chart...

TORONTO - Canadian housing activity appears to be climbing out of its slump, but is still far from a rebound. The Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) said Monday sales in June were up 4.1 per cent...

TORONTO - Normally, the Soulpepper Academy would be ramping up for a nation-wide audition process to find the finest thespians, directors and playwrights to join its prestigious paid training residenc...

TORONTO - The board of health in Canada’s most populous city decided Monday to push the federal government to decriminalize all drugs and is calling on Canadians to turn their recommendation int...

VANCOUVER - A unique and exotic tropical plant, acclaimed for its size and abhorred for its smell, is blooming at a Vancouver conservatory. A news release from the Vancouver Park Board says the titan ...

SIDNEY, B.C. - The passenger ferry departs the pier at the north end of Beacon Avenue in Sidney, B.C., bound for the long, thin sandbar that marks Sidney Spit. The voyage on board the 15-metre catamar...

Crews were scanning waters in the Gulf of St. Lawrence on Monday in a bid to find an endangered North Atlantic right whale snarled in fishing line and buoys, just days after a humpback whale was succe...

OTTAWA - A federal watchdog has dismissed complaints that a mass-shooting survivor broke the rules by working with an advocacy group to lobby for gun policy changes while also serving as a member of t...