Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - A Halifax-based sailor has been handed a 22-month jail sentence and has been dismissed from the navy after a military judge found him guilty of sexually assaulting a subordinate. In a verdic...

JUNEAU, Alaska - Bad weather in southwestern Alaska has delayed the air search for a British Columbia man and his climbing companion near Juneau. Twenty-four-year old Marc-Andre Leclerc of Squamish an...

HALIFAX - An intense storm is expected to bring another blast of winter to the Maritimes this week. Environment Canada says a low pressure system is forecast to develop east of Cape Hatteras today and...

WINNIPEG - Manitoba residents will be paying just over five cents more for a litre of gas after the carbon tax kicks in Sept. 1., but the province has promised that all its revenues will eventually be...

OTTAWA - An environment professor at Dalhousie University says Canada’s push to lead the G7 into a war against plastic garbage would get a whole lot more heft if the federal government started e...

Six stories in the news for Monday, March 12 --- CHRISTINE ELLIOTT CONCEDES TORY LEADERSHIP TO DOUG FORD The new leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservative party is no longer being challenged ...

Scores of Canadians dipped their toes into cryptocurrency mining in recent weeks - they just didn’t realize it. A wave of so-called “cryptojacking” has been sweeping the internet, fo...

David Reid says he’s become more diligent about locking up on the land his family has farmed in Alberta for more than a century and is more watchful of strange vehicles along rural side roads. &...

The acquittal of a Saskatchewan farmer in the shooting death of a young Indigenous man has renewed a simmering debate about what rights rural residents have to use force against a perceived intruder. ...

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump urged the quick completion of the NAFTA negotiations in a phone call with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Monday, amid indications the U.S. wants a deal wrapped up...