Category Archives: Canada

WASHINGTON - Members of the Trump administration have dropped several hints in recent days that withdrawing from NAFTA is not in their current plans - and the latest such example came Thursday. A cong...

MONTREAL - Hydro-Quebec may consider raising its rates for energy-hogging cryptocurrency miners, the utility said Thursday as requests continue to pour in from virtual currency companies looking to es...

OTTAWA - Canadian food producers are concerned that the federal government may be dragging its heels on ratifying the newly rebooted Trans-Pacific Partnership, saying delay could hurt their ability to...

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has named two new senators to represent Ontario. Martha Deacon is an educator who has also been involved in amateur sports. Robert Black is a leader in the agric...

OTTAWA - The removal of visa requirements for Romanian nationals has prompted a spike in asylum claims and a sit-down between the Canadian government and Romanian authorities in Ottawa. Officials from...

MONTREAL - Within sight of downtown Montreal and around the corner from a popular strip mall is a giant mass - 22 football fields long, 10 storeys high - that can initially be mistaken for the brown-a...

OTTAWA - The RCMP says it will undertake a code-of-conduct investigation into a private Facebook group posting by a person believed to be an officer who reportedly said Colten Boushie deserved to die....

Research suggests hares and jackrabbits hopping along in the Rocky Mountains demonstrate the “secret sauce” for how animals can adapt to a new climate. Scott Mills, lead author of a paper ...

EDMONTON - A new medical guideline suggests family doctors should think twice before prescribing medical marijuana to their patients. The Simplified Guideline for Prescribing Medical Cannabinoids in P...

HALIFAX - Nova Scotia’s highest court has overturned the sexual assault convictions of an HIV-positive former boxer who slept with two women, saying their consent wasn’t diminished by the ...