Category Archives: Canada

SURREY, B.C. - The felling of a favoured peacock perch in a Surrey, B.C., neighbourhood has exposed a divide between locals who like the beautiful birds and those frustrated with the noise, mess and p...

OTTAWA - Ian Brodie has been waiting a decade to tell his side of the political story that was known as NAFTA-gate. In 2008, Brodie was the circumspect chief of staff to then-prime minister Stephen Ha...

CALGARY - Police say a man whose body was found inside a wall in a women’s washroom in a downtown Calgary mall died accidentally after he crawled into a vent behind a toilet and got stuck. ̶...

VANCOUVER - British Columbia’s highest court has dismissed an appeal from a Vancouver Island man who hoped to certify a class-action lawsuit against the makers of the cold and flu product Cold-F...

A Catholic school board in southern Ontario has suspended a fundraising policy that prevents students from raising money for organizations that publicly support abortion, contraception and euthanasia,...

EDMONTON - The Alberta government has reversed a decision which denied an evangelical Christian couple’s request to adopt a child because of their religious views on sexuality and gender identit...

MONTREAL - Hanging out at the mall to get away from mom or dad is no longer an option for some Quebec teens after their local shopping centre took the controversial step of banning people under the ag...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia has had its first suspected overdose death linked to carfentanil, the province’s chief medical officer of health said Wednesday. Dr. Robert Strang said the potent opiate is...

OTTAWA - The federal government has lost a court bid to overturn a NAFTA ruling involving a Nova Scotia quarry and marine terminal project, sparking renewed concerns about the trade deal’s effec...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - A love-struck Michigan man has convinced Air Canada to give him free tickets to visit his Newfoundland girlfriend - if he can manage to make his campaign go viral. C.J. Poirie...