Category Archives: Canada

WINNIPEG - A Manitoba woman is appealing her conviction for hiding the remains of six babies she conceived over many years in a rented storage locker. Andrea Giesbrecht, 43, was sentenced in July to 8...

FREDERICTON - Another group of New Brunswick firefighters is heading to British Columbia to help battle historic forest fires in the province. A crew of 16 firefighters from New Brunswick and five fro...

MONTREAL - Homebuyers from mainland China have helped fuel a Montreal housing market that continued to sizzle last month with record sales and rising prices, says one real estate agent. David Mellor, ...

OTTAWA - When it comes to winning over Canadian golfers, it helps to know someone. Ed Byman has that covered. Try this on for bona fides: Byman - a former PGA Tour player and veteran of the Canadian T...

TORONTO - Canada’s major cities are vying to become Amazon’s second home, with the mayors of Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal all planning to pitch the technology giant on their virtues. Am...

SAINT JOHN, N.B. - A New Brunswick man who sexually assaulted an underage girl is now suing her family and friends for brutally beating him. The man’s lawyer, David Lutz, says it was not up to t...

Seven stories in the news for Thursday, Sept. 7 --- PM TRUDEAU NOT BACKING DOWN ON TAX PLAN Justin Trudeau insists that his government won’t back down on a controversial plan to end tax provisio...

KELOWNA, B.C. - Justin Trudeau got a small taste of the kind of grief his backbenchers have been getting over the government’s plan to end what it calls unfair tax advantages for wealthy small b...

TORONTO - Playing notoriously hot-headed tennis legend John McEnroe on the big screen was “quite cathartic” for Shia LaBeouf. “To watch it now is something I’m very proud of,&#...

SUDBURY, Ont. - Former New Democrat MP Glenn Thibeault asked for paid jobs for constituency office staffers in exchange for running in a provincial byelection that Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne was &...