Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - One of seven people who helped shelter former CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden when he fled to Hong Kong is in failing health and needs Canada’s help, his lawyer Robert Tibbo said Mon...

OTTAWA - Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland says seven Myanmar military leaders have been added to Canada’s sanctions list for their role in the Rohingya crisis. Freeland says the sancti...

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba politician has more than Icelandic heritage fuelling his fandom of the Nordic nation’s soccer team - he also has family ties. Len Isleifson, legislature member for Brandon ...

HALIFAX - A seven-year-old Nova Scotia boy who suffered brain damage at birth has received a $6 million settlement - the largest of its kind in the province’s history. The lawsuit said Cullen Ch...

OTTAWA - Canada’s long-simmering internal debate over how the federal government divvies up equalization payments among the provinces is expected to flare up yet again this week when the country...

FREDERICTON - It has been a big year so far for Willie O’Ree - full of accolades as he marked 60 years since becoming the first black player in the National Hockey League - but there’s one...

REGINA - The head of Canada’s national police force apologized to the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women Monday while pledging improved relations with Aboriginal communities. R...

TORONTO - A local arts organization has set up an installation to help a Toronto community heal after a deadly van attack that devastated the city earlier this year. North York Arts has hung a series ...

HALIFAX - At least four salt water marshes in the Maritimes are to be restored - some of them three centuries after early Acadian farmers first drained them using dikes - in a bid to help absorb the r...

WINNIPEG - A young Indigenous woman’s mother has told a sentencing hearing that her life has been a nightmare since her daughter’s fatal beating that was filmed and shared online. “S...