Category Archives: Canada

HALIFAX - A dispute over the federal government’s decision to award a multimillion-dollar Arctic surf clam fishing licence to a Nova Scotia company continued to fester Wednesday, as Federal Fish...

TORONTO - A former Somali child refugee will have to wait two weeks to find out whether his deportation hearing will proceed, an adjudicator ruled Wednesday. At an immigration hearing in Toronto, a la...

REGINA - The father of a young Indigenous man who was killed on a Saskatchewan farm says he is heartbroken the Crown will not appeal the acquittal of the man accused in the fatal shooting. Last month,...

VICTORIA - A special prosecutor has been appointed in British Columbia to handle a case involving 24 sex-related charges against a former mayor of Burns Lake. The prosecution service says Vancouver la...

REGINA - The Saskatchewan coroner’s office is investigating the death of a 12-year-old girl who was found under snow behind her home. Police and other first responders were called to a Regina re...

WINNIPEG - Former Manitoba premier Greg Selinger welled up in the legislature Wednesday as he said goodbye to his fellow politicians, ending 18 years of sometimes-tumultuous service. He used his final...

Montreal is set to join other Canadian cities in offering a space where homeless people suffering from alcoholism can drink in a controlled environment. The so-called “wet shelter” is part...

WASHINGTON - Canada will get at least some temporary relief allowing it to avoid the immediate impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s controversial steel and aluminum tariffs, the White House s...

CALGARY - Canada’s federal finance minister said Wednesday the country must do better in closing the gender gap in pay and workforce participation for the health of the economy, but acknowledged...

OTTAWA - Canadian pulse farmers are pondering if it is even worth planting peas and lentils this spring, as steep tariffs from their No. 1 customer cut deep into their profit margins. However Gordon B...