Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Doug Ford is set to officially become Ontario’s premier on Friday and he’s inviting the public to come watch. A ceremony is scheduled to take place on the steps of the legislatur...

CHARLOTTETOWN - The Mi’kmaq have lost a court bid to block the sale of a Crown-owned golf course on Prince Edward Island, but fears over the wider consequences for Aboriginal land title could pr...

CALGARY - A player with the Western Hockey League’s Lethbridge Hurricanes who was burned by a campfire earlier this month has emerged from a medically induced coma. Ryan Vandervlis, a 20-year ol...

VANCOUVER - The BC Coroners Service has released its latest overdose statistics, showing 109 people died in May from illicit drugs. That’s a decrease of 23 per cent in the number of deaths from ...

Postmedia Network Inc. will close six small-town newspapers and reduce print publication of four more, while slashing 10 per cent of its total salary outlay through staff layoffs and voluntary buyouts...

TORONTO - Two Toronto police officers were “in distress” and had to be taken to hospital after allegedly eating a marijuana-laced chocolate bar they took during a raid on a cannabis dispen...

TORONTO - A Canadian restaurant owner inundated by angry reviews because her brunch spot bears a similar name to the U.S. eatery that refused to serve White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sander...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - The New Brunswick government is committing $10 million to establish the province as a leader in the field of small, modular nuclear reactor technology. Energy Minister Rick Doucet m...

OTTAWA - An Ontario business says it will take the Liberal government to court over the conditions attached to the federal Canada Summer Jobs program, arguing they violate freedom of speech. Tamara Ja...

WINNIPEG - A musician who left his 89-year-old mother covered in her own feces and urine on the floor of the home they shared until she died says he will never forgive himself. “I’m very, ...