Category Archives: Canada

THUNDER BAY, Ont. - A newspaper in northern Ontario is apologizing for a headline on a story about a police investigation into two incidents where eggs were thrown from passing vehicles at two men bel...

VERNON, B.C. - Some woodpeckers in British Columbia appear to have a taste for the arts, but their efforts to make a local theatre their home are not winning rave reviews. The birds are northern flick...

MONTREAL - Crown attoneys in Quebec say they will ask the Supreme Court of Canada to hear an appeal of a case involving the first suspect in the province set free under new rules limiting the length o...

CALGARY - A lawsuit by NHL linesman Don Henderson against former Calgary Flames defenceman Dennis Wideman has been set aside by a judge to be handled by an arbitrator within the league. The $10.25 mil...

OTTAWA - The $173 million set aside in this week’s federal budget to respond to people illegally crossing into Canada from the U.S. to seek asylum shouldn’t be interpreted as officials pre...

VANCOUVER - The Vancouver Park Board is appealing a court decision that determined it didn’t have the authority to ban whales, dolphins and porpoises at the city’s aquarium. A B.C. Supreme...

INDIANAPOLIS - Months after the story of a Canadian woman’s botched eyeball tattoo made headlines around the world, a U.S. state has passed legislation to ban the practice. Catt Gallinger, of Ot...

PETERBOROUGH, Ont. - Chanie Wenjack’s sister said the presence of Gord Downie was upon Peterborough, Ont., Friday as she marked the opening of a school for Indigenous studies at Trent University...

VANCOUVER - Several conservation groups say the federal government’s failure to issue an emergency order reducing threats to endangered orcas off the B.C. coast ahead of fishing and whale-watchi...

VANCOUVER - Sitting in a doctor’s waiting room in Vancouver, Patricia Louie saw posters that only featured white and light skin-toned people depicted as patients. She wondered if medical textboo...