Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Talk about crashing the party a little early. Two long-range Russian bombers were intercepted in international airspace off the coast of Alaska on Friday as Canada and the U.S. were preparing...

TORONTO - Ontario’s governing Liberals claimed Monday to have found a costing error in the NDP election platform, marking yet another attack on the third party that has been gaining momentum, as...

IQALUIT, Nunavut - Nunavut’s health minister says more than one Arctic community is at a crisis point dealing with social problems. “We already have some letters crying out for more servic...

Margot Kidder’s sister says the Canadian-born actress shared a courageous spirit with Lois Lane, the tough-as-nails journalist she played on screen. Kidder, best known for her role opposite Chri...

SHERWOOD PARK, Alta. - An Alberta school division has apologized after a staff member at a Christian school wore blackface while dressed up as a member of the British band Spice Girls. Elk Island Publ...

WINNIPEG - The president of the Winnipeg Rifles of the Canadian Junior Football League has resigned after writing a Facebook post that made reference to Nashville Predators defenceman P.K. Subban. Tod...

OTTAWA - As an Amber Alert sounded for a missing boy in Ontario on Monday, some mobile users questioned the effectiveness of the country’s new wireless emergency alert system, while others compl...

MONTREAL - Haitian-born Quebec singer Luck Mervil pleaded guilty Monday to one charge of sexual exploitation involving a 17-year-old girl. The artist, whose actual name is Lucknerson Mervil, was arres...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia is yet to set targets for its new cap and trade regime to reduce greenhouse gases, but the province announced Monday that it has joined the Western Climate Initiative Inc. - a no...

OTTAWA - An Algonquin elder described Monday how shocked she was to learn - almost by accident - that a routine nursing-home visit with her ailing father would be their last. Annie Smith St-Georges to...