Category Archives: Canada

MONTREAL - Evacuating customers from areas in the path of the deadly Hurricane Irma has frustrated some passengers but Air Canada says it was perhaps the most complex manoeuvre since the Sept. 11 terr...

CASTLEGAR, B.C. - Evacuation orders are being lifted and highways reopened as the recovery phase begins following the most destructive wildfire season in British Columbia’s recorded history. But...

TORONTO - With so many humanitarian crises in the world, it’s on everyone to educate themselves and continue pushing for democracy and human rights, Angelina Jolie told a Toronto conference focu...

Highlights from the news file for Monday, Sept. 11 --- FREELAND VOWS TO GET CANADIANS HOME: Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland is expressing sympathy and solidarity with those Canadians trappe...

VANCOUVER - The federal government plans to spend more than $50 million to collect data on Canada’s coastlines to help determine how humans are impacting marine ecosystems. Fisheries and Oceans ...

PISQUID, P.E.I. - A P.E.I. man was arrested after allegedly driving a farm tractor while twice the legal alcohol limit. RCMP say a 60-year-old passenger in a car was injured on Saturday evening after ...

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada will offer a detailed look Wednesday at the size of the gap between the country’s top income earners and those toiling at the bottom - a chasm that appears to be narro...

VANCOUVER - A new report concludes that it would be cheaper to cancel the Site C dam than to delay the $8.8-billion megaproject in northeast British Columbia. The report by auditing firm Deloitte LLP ...

VANCOUVER - A Sri Lankan man found guilty of smuggling Tamil migrants to Canada won’t serve any more time in prison, despite being handed a four-sentence on Monday. Kunarobinson Christhurajah, w...

WINNIPEG - A moose that was on the loose for two days in Winnipeg and almost delayed the start of a Canadian Football League game has died after being tranquilized. Manitoba’s Sustainable Develo...