Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia First Nations appear poised to take on the province’s marijuana monopoly - including one Mi’kmaq community that has enlisted Olympian Ross Rebagliati to roll out a &#...

HALIFAX - Wanda Robson says her sister Viola Desmond “preached by doing,” and wanted young people to pursue their dreams regardless of what stood in their way. Robson beamed as a Canada...

TORONTO - Bystanders leapt into action to rescue a blind man who accidentally fell onto the subway tracks in Toronto, a witness said Friday. Julie Caniglia said in an interview that a man on her eastb...

SASKATOON - A junior hockey player who was injured in the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash is making progress but is not yet able to speak. Defenceman Layne Matechuk’s family released a stateme...

VICTORIA - Investigators on Vancouver Island are treating the deaths of two sailors reported missing last month as homicides. The Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit confirmed Friday that hum...

VANCOUVER - Police say a 10-year-old boy suffered a gunshot injury in Maple Ridge, B.C., but they’re not providing any details about what happened. RCMP Insp. Aaron Paradis says in a release tha...

OTTAWA - The Trudeau government intensified Friday its trade fight with U.S. President Donald Trump, posting an extensive final hit list of $16.6-billion worth of American imports that will be slapped...

NEW YORK - The state funeral for Quebec’s first education minister Paul Gerin-Lajoie will be held in Montreal on Aug. 9. Premier Philippe Couillard confirmed the date Friday while speaking to re...

TORONTO - Ontario’s new Progressive Conservative government was sworn in Friday. Here is a list of the new ministers: Doug Ford - Premier and minister of intergovernmental affairs Christine Elli...

FREDERICTON - One of Canada’s most notorious killers - who murdered three RCMP officers and wounded two others - has taken to an online matchmaking website where he portrays himself as “a ...