Category Archives: Canada

CALGARY - New technologies employing brute force as well as artificial volcanic action are being developed to better seal thousands of inactive oil and gas wells in Canada that are leaking methane, a ...

MONTREAL - Celine Dion has cancelled a string of shows between March 27 and April 18 due to a hearing condition called Patulous Eustachian tube she says will require a “minimally invasive surgic...

TORONTO - A man accused of killing a young woman in Toronto’s gay village had his charge upgraded to first-degree murder after police found new evidence in the case, an investigator said Thursda...

EDMONTON - Alberta’s 2018 budget includes more spending, an $8.8-billion deficit and a five-year plan to balance the books that’s tied to the ups and downs of oil prices and the vagaries o...

HALIFAX - Schools are closing across the Maritime provinces as a spring snow storm tracks toward the region. Environment Canada says between 15 and 25 centimetres of snow is expected in P.E.I., northe...

Five stories in the news for Thursday, March 22 --- SON OF IRANIAN-CANADIAN WHO DIED IN JAIL SPEAKS OUT The son of an Iranian-Canadian professor who died in a Tehran prison says he can’t grieve ...

SUSSEX, N.B. - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stopped in rural New Brunswick Thursday to promote his government’s new Canadian Workers Benefit announced in the recent budget, but a former MP for ...

VANCOUVER - Almost two months since an Iranian-Canadian professor died in a Tehran prison, his sons still haven’t had a moment to grieve. Mehran Seyed-Emami says it’s too important to get ...

OTTAWA - “Mali is a war zone. This is a combat mission and there is no peace to keep.” - Conservative defence critic James Bezan, March 19 The Trudeau government announced Monday that it p...

EDMONTON - Alberta is to table its 2018 budget today, and Premier Rachel Notley’s government says it will reflect a commitment to continued spending and getting the books balanced. The province ...