Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Starbucks’ plan to open its washrooms to the non-paying public “100 per cent of the time” is good news for consumers who seek a hassle-free place to go on the go, but likel...

STOUFFVILLE, Ont. - Ontario’s animal welfare agency has laid 14 cruelty charges against an unnamed mink farm. The Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals says it began an invest...

MONTREAL - A former Hells Angels boss already serving a life sentence in the death of two Quebec prison guards has been given a 10-year prison term for conspiring to kill another underworld figure. Qu...

TORONTO - The Bank of Canada's senior deputy governor is calling for more diverse perspectives at the policy decision-making table to avoid falling into an “echo chamber” that reinforces t...

WASHINGTON - NAFTA negotiators parted ways for the weekend with multiple issues still unresolved and mere days left before what’s being described as an unofficial deadline for getting a deal thi...

SASKATOON - One of the hockey players who was injured in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash is taking his first step to getting back on the ice. Kaleb Dahlgren, 20, has committed to play for the Lions hoc...

HALIFAX - A Muslim activist says she has made peace with a Halifax police officer who made Islamophobic comments on social media. Rana Zaman complained to police after seeing an officer’s commen...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - Love will be in the air next week when a young Michigan man flies to meet his Newfoundland girlfriend after a successful Twitter campaign for free tickets - including a boost ...

HALIFAX - A Halifax university is under fire for assigning a course about Canada’s residential schools to a non-Indigenous professor, something activists say undermines reconciliation efforts. M...

SAINT-SAUVEUR, Que. - Former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister Marguerite Blais will run in the provincial election this year for the Coalition Avenir Quebec. Blais was a member of the legislature from ...