Category Archives: Canada

HAPPY VALLEY-GOOSE BAY, N.L. - A Labrador woman is safe after police say she was taken against her will by her husband. RCMP are investigating the alleged kidnapping and forcible confinement in Happy ...

Doug Ford has been named the new leader of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives, winning a contest fraught with complications. Here are five things to know about the new Tory leader: Family Ties ...

VANCOUVER - Jaspreet Bal was eating lunch with friends in rural Ontario when she says a “kind, well-intentioned” white man approached them to chat. He asked about her background, and she r...

TORONTO - “Maudie,” starring recent Oscar nominee Sally Hawkins as real-life Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis and Ethan Hawke as her fish peddler husband, took a leading seven film troph...

TORONTO - No winning ticket was sold for the $9.6 million jackpot in Saturday night’s Lotto 649 draw. However, the guaranteed $1 million prize went to a ticket holder in Ontario. The jackpot for...

SASKATOON - A former candidate in last year’s leadership contest for the federal Conservatives has lost the nomination for his Saskatoon riding. Brad Trost was defeated at a Conservative nominat...

BURNABY, B.C. - Protesters around Vancouver held duelling rallies on Saturday, some welcoming Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project with others decrying it. Several hundred p...

HALIFAX - A military judge is expected to render a decision Monday in the court martial of a Halifax sailor accused of sexually assaulting a subordinate. Lawyers for the prosecution and defence gave c...

HALIFAX - Thousands of Nova Scotians are without power today after a snowstorm battered the province. Nova Scotia Power says over 11,500 customers are still without electricity. That’s down from...

MARKHAM, Ont. - A heated battle for the reins of Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives that exposed deep rifts within the party continued to smolder even after Doug Ford was crowned the new leader...