Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says transport trucks and school buses built after 2020 will have to be more efficient and produce fewer greenhouse gases. New regulations announced tod...

VANCOUVER - The Supreme Court of Canada is set to release its decision Friday on whether law societies have the right to deny accreditation to a proposed law school at a Christian university in Britis...

LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - It is a long way between prairie ranchland where cattle graze and ocean waters where seaweed blooms, but Canadian scientists want to study whether red algae can one day be used as ...

MONTREAL - The elegant draft horses that pull tourist caleches through Old Montreal will soon be clip-clopping their way into the city’s history books as the municipal administration moves forwa...

HALIFAX - There have been no reported deaths of North Atlantic right whales in Canadian waters this year - with dozens of the endangered mammals spotted amid strict fishing and vessel speed restrictio...

VANCOUVER - Metis grandmother Elaine Durocher, who has lived on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside for 11 years, says it’s time for an investigation into the disproportionate rate that Indigeno...

TORONTO - The sales practices of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies - a long-time sore spot for many consumers - will be the subject of a public inquiry ordered by the federal governm...

RED DEER, Alta. - A Humboldt Broncos player who was injured in a horrific bus crash in Saskatchewan has become an assistant coach for the Red Deer Optimist Chiefs. Graysen Cameron, a 19-year old forwa...

TORONTO - A teenager behind an Ontario town’s first Pride parade was still getting over his surprise on Thursday at having found himself taking a congratulatory phone call from Prime Minister Ju...

CALGARY - Canadian snowboarding icon Mark McMorris says being named the marshal for the parade that will kick off this year’s Calgary Stampede is part of the “most successful” year o...