Category Archives: Canada

OTTAWA - Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan calls it “ridiculous” and “offensive” that a magazine in India is accusing Canada of being complicit in a rise in Sikh terrorism. Sajjan...

OTTAWA - Canada’s research community has long yearned for a consequential funding boost for science - and 2018 is poised to be its year. The Liberal government’s federal budget, now believ...

OTTAWA - It may have a scary name, but it’s intended to help - not frighten - already traumatized children. Project Arachnid is an automated system that crawls like a spider through online links...

Seven stories in the news for Wednesday, Feb. 7 --- ALBERTA TO STOP IMPORTING B.C. WINE IN OIL FLAP Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says her province is banning wine from British Columbia wineries effec...

EDMONTON - Alberta’s ecosystems and the natural beauty they create are still largely intact but parts are disappearing at rates that exceed deforestation in the Amazon rain forest. “We con...

WASHINGTON - Ontario is about to introduce a bill allowing it to retaliate against any state that adopts Buy American provisions, then plans to start a national conversation with other provinces about...

Highlights from the news file for Tuesday, Feb. 6 --- LEGAL POT ON TRACK FOR JULY, MINISTER SAYS: The Trudeau government insists it’s on track to legalize recreational pot in July - but that wil...

TORONTO - A veteran journalist with Ontario’s public broadcaster fired back and denied a sexual harassment allegation made by a Toronto woman, calling the claim “complete fiction.” S...

Ontario’s chief coroner is setting up a panel of experts that will look at dozens of residential fires in Indigenous communities that have killed nearly 60 people in just over a decade. Dr. Dirk...

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba grand chief says a remote northern First Nation is still healing after the gruesome killing of an 11-year-old girl. A boy, who is now 17, was sentenced on Monday to 10 years for ...