Category Archives: Canada

TORONTO - Five things to know about the Ontario government’s throne speech: - Hospitals: The government says it will make “significant investments” in hospital operations to cut down...

OTTAWA - Legal marijuana will be sold in plain packages emblazoned with a yellow health warning and a red stop sign stamped with the silhouette of a pot leaf, according to draft regulations released M...

RED DEER, Alta. - Brady Flett says he knew within days of the deaths of an Alberta couple and their daughter that the supposedly grief-stricken son was involved somehow. Flett, though, did not see Jas...

HALIFAX - A Nova Scotia judge has allowed a Halifax-area father unsupervised parenting time with his child, despite the mother’s objections over his “unorthodox beliefs” on white pri...

HALIFAX - Robbie Weatherbee is watching Tuesday’s budget in Nova Scotia as someone deeply troubled by the state of the province’s mental health system. With the Liberal government poised t...

VANCOUVER - When Jeanine McDonald heard a pop in her low back as she bent down to pick up a lid from a box, she had no idea she’d ruptured a disc and would wait three months for surgery. Then a ...

BATHURST, N.B. - Police say three youths have been arrested in Bathurst, after a threat involving schools in the northern New Brunswick city was posted on social media. The alleged threat prompted a l...

TORONTO - The Globe and Mail has received the most nominations for the 2017 National Newspaper Awards, with 18 entries on the list of finalists. The Toronto Star was next with 12 nominations while Mon...

OTTAWA - A Canadian data expert who set off an international uproar over the alleged leak of private Facebook user data lost his job years ago in the office of former Liberal leader Michael Ignatieff,...

TEMPE, Ariz. - Uber says it has suspended all of its self-driving vehicle testing, including operations in Toronto, following a fatal pedestrian collision involving a vehicle in Arizona. In addition t...