Category Archives: Canada

VANCOUVER - A four-year-old British Columbia boy is fighting for his life, just days after coming down with what appeared to be a flu that developed into a rare and potentially deadly blood infection....

OTTAWA - Georgette LeBlanc became Canada’s eighth parliamentary poet laureate in January. During her two year-tenure, she will be expected to write poems for major events, sponsor poetry reading...

ST. JOHN’S, N.L. - The trial of a Newfoundland man accused of murdering his five-year-old daughter and burning down his house has now been scheduled for next March. Trent Butt had been expected ...

CALGARY - Torstar Corp. is more than doubling the pool of reporters at its western Canadian Metro free daily newspapers, an unusual move in a shrinking industry that puts it in direct digital competit...

TORONTO - Up to 30 people may have been exposed to a used needle during blood sugar tests conducted at a community event in Toronto last month, the city’s public health authority said Monday as ...

VANCOUVER - A disease that’s killed hundreds of feral rabbits in British Columbia has prompted a Metro Vancouver zoo to take precautions to protect its bunnies and those of the public. Menita Pr...

AYLESFORD, N.S. - A forbidding, four-legged escapee from a Nova Scotia farm is back in its barn - and destined once again for the slaughterhouse. “The bull is back, the bull is back,” said...

Three stories in the news for Monday, April 2 --- MINISTER SAYS OTTAWA HAS FULFILLED CHILD WELFARE ORDERS Canada’s Indigenous services minister says Ottawa has fully complied with the orders of ...

OTTAWA - Georgette LeBlanc looks around the parliamentary library in the Centre Block and admits she was last in the building when she was in high school. The Quebec-born, Nova Scotian-raised poet wil...

WINNIPEG - Canada’s Indigenous services minister says Ottawa has fully complied with the orders of a 2016 ruling from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal which said the federal government discrim...