Category Archives: Canada

CHILLIWACK, B.C. - New technology is being installed to allow for variable speed limits along two of British Columbia’s busiest stretches of highway in an effort to reduce crashes. The B.C. gove...

VICTORIA - The pressroom of the Victoria Times Colonist will be shutting down, and the union representing the 18 workers who will be unemployed says Glacier Media is moving the work to a facility outs...

Toronto public health officials say the federal government should decriminalize all drugs for personal use in an effort to fight the opioid epidemic that has claimed hundreds of lives in recent years....

TORONTO - Symptoms of acute myeloid leukemia tend to arise quite suddenly, but scientists have discovered signs of this aggressive, deadly form of blood cancer can be present many years earlier - prov...

VANCOUVER - A former federal Green candidate disavowed by the party for her anti-Semitic views is on trial in Germany for publishing videos denying the Holocaust. Monika Schaefer ran unsuccessfully fo...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Mohamed Ravalia thought his neighbours were out barbecuing on one of the first sunny summer days in St. John’s when he caught the scent of smoke in the air early Monday ...

HALIFAX - The federal minister of immigration objected Monday to the new Ontario Tory government’s references to people claiming refugee status as “illegal border crossers.” Last wee...

OTTAWA - After waiting for half a year, Stephen Poloz appears ready to get back on his rate-hiking path this week. Recent signals from the Bank of Canada governor, combined with strong economic data, ...

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Roberto Osuna, who is charged with assault, had his case put over for three weeks at a brief court hearing Monday. The 23-year-old closer was arrested in May in connection wi...

Ontario has put a large swath of homes on evacuation notice, emptied two provincial parks and called for help from other provinces as forest fires rage near the Quebec border. The Ministry of Natural ...