Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - The supply of homes in Metro Vancouver’s real estate market hit a three-year high as sales dipped below historical averages last month. The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver rep...

TORONTO - WestJet says it is reviewing its baggage policy after a customer complained that it discriminated against travellers from certain countries. At issue is an airline policy that prevents trave...

ARVIAT, Nunavut - A Nunavut man died this week while protecting his children from a rare polar bear attack. RCMP say Aaron Gibbons, 31, was on an island about 10 kilometres from the hamlet of Arviat, ...

TORONTO - It’s the final straw for plastic at Recipe Unlimited Corporation. The restaurant giant, formerly known as Cara Operations, will start to ditch plastic straws at its 19 brands in August...

MISSOULA, Mont. - Wildlife officials in Montana have found a new home in Canada for three grizzly bear cubs that were orphaned in June when their mother was killed by a vehicle. Montana Fish, Wildlife...

VICTORIA - Former Olympic rower Harold Backer received a 13-month jail sentence Wednesday after pleading guilty to fraud, but no answers were provided about his mysterious 18 month disappearance that ...

Montreal was the hot Canadian real estate market for Chinese nationals last year as interest slipped in Toronto and Vancouver following the introduction of foreign buyers taxes, says a report from a w...

TORONTO - A number of laws passed by Ontario’s previous Liberal government have been put on hold by the newly elected Progressive Conservative regime, including measures to tighten rules around ...

MONTREAL - The Montreal International Jazz Festival has cancelled the remaining presentations of a show that has been criticized because it features a white woman singing songs composed by black slave...

GRAY RAPIDS, N.B. - Two people are dead after the raft they were in overturned on New Brunswick’s Miramichi River. RCMP Sgt. Brent Johnston says eight friends were rafting down the river in Gray...