Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - A ticket sold in Ontario claimed Saturday night’s $7 million Lotto 649 jackpot. And the guaranteed $1 million prize went to a ticket holder in the Prairies. The jackpot for the next Lo...

VANCOUVER - Beer brewed with marijuana, baking mixes concocted to bring out the unique flavours of cannabis oil and good, old-fashioned pot cookies: Canadian companies are creating them all, but it...

FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. - Researchers say they believe another endangered orca has died off British Columbia’s coast. The Center for Whale Research, based Friday Harbor, Wash., says a southern resi...

HALIFAX - A Canadian expert in privacy says he’s concerned about victim blaming after recent reports of online “sextortion” scams in two Atlantic Canadian provinces. Such scams typic...

TORONTO - Two of Canada’s top arts groups are calling on Russia to release an incarcerated Ukrainian filmmaker who has been on a hunger strike for 34 days demanding the release of Ukrainian pris...

A girl of about seven years of age who was briefly the subject of an Amber Alert was found safe and sound at a relative’s house, Quebec provincial police said Saturday. Police said the child was...

TOFINO, B.C. - Jae Valentine woke to the sound of wolves howling and cries for help early Friday morning after a boat sank off the coast of Tofino, B.C., prompting an exhaustive search for three missi...

A New Brunswick realtor opted to think on his feet in a bid to sell a four-bedroom home near Moncton, dancing around the house to the 1980s classic “Take On Me” in a sales video that’...

TORONTO - A 21-year-old man from Markham, Ont., was charged with attempted murder a day after two young sisters were injured in a shooting at a Toronto playground, police said Saturday. Sheldon Eriya ...

CONTRECOEUR, Que. - A lightning strike is likely behind the death of some 50 geese that were found floating in a river northeast of Montreal, experts say. Universite de Montreal veterinary specialists...