Category Archives: Canada

ALDERGROVE, B.C. - Yoga practitioners in Aldergrove, B.C., had some unlikely company during a string of sessions on Sunday. Five pigs, a chihuahua and turkey wandered between mats, with one pig taking...

VANCOUVER - Five Canadian families have been granted visas to return home with their newly adopted babies, after being stuck in Japan for weeks due to a bureaucratic impasse. Ryan Hoag of Coquitlam, B...

John Holer, who founded the Marineland theme park in Niagara Falls, Ont., and unapologetically defended it against all critics, has died at the age of 83. His lawyer Andrew Burns says Holer died in hi...

HALIFAX - Former baristas at a Halifax cafe who are still owed thousands in unpaid wages are pushing back by opening a coffee shop of their own at the same location as their former workplace. The Glit...

TORONTO - An unarmed woman was killed in a drive-by shooting in north Toronto early Sunday morning while on her way home from a funeral, police said. Toronto police Chief Mark Saunders told a news con...

Notorious serial killer and pig farmer Robert Pickton has been transferred to a maximum-security prison in Quebec, the family of the one of his victims said Sunday. Joyce Lachance, whose niece Marnie ...

OTTAWA - Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale says the government will look at ways to make things fair for those who have criminal records for marijuana possession after legalization comes into force...

OTTAWA - Natural Resources Minister Jim Carr says he knew almost the moment he heard Kinder Morgan was pressing the pause button on the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion on April 8 that the federal go...

MONTREAL - For the second time in two days, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was confronted on Sunday by a protester during a visit to Quebec to coincide with the Fete nationale holiday. A woman approach...

WINNIPEG - Nearly half of all youth who end up in custody across Canada are Indigenous, a statistic that a Manitoba activist says shows unacceptable and systemic racism. Data released by Statistics Ca...